So looks like you are not really interested to see me "back that up with some evidence,"
because you've got that path mined already. It wouldn't matter to you which or how many educational consultants I named, because "'educational consultants' are generally about as unbiased a source as your local encyclopedia salesman ... there's money and/or benefits ...." So, damned if I do, damned if I don't.
Lol. Not so fast. Some are
assuredly worse than others!
There's even a forum set up on fornits for those types:
EdCons and referring organizations and agencies. Although... it's probably not up to date.
I don't know exactly what these Ed Cons you refer to have written about, but if any of them are making lots of references to
diagnoses of "Attachment Disorder," ya got a big fat warning sign right there. Technically, there's no such thing. There's
Reactive Attachment Disorder, but it's occurrence is quite rare. What's more likely to be case is that kids have attachment
issues, which are usually secondary to some other problem.
Irregardless of what you are dealing with, relying on a third party organization to solve this kind of problem is the
last thing you want to do. The key relationship is between parent and child, and there really aren't any stand-in actors that can play any of those parts. As the American Psychiatric Association's
Position Paper on RAD clearly states:
Children with RAD will benefit most from an individualized treatment plan that will usually include work with the child's family to help them foster an attachment to their child. Except when complicating factors arise, hospitalization is generally contraindicated since the treatment goal is fostering an attachment between child and parent.[/list]
This position paper also states: "There are no simple solutions or magic answers."
