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7 yr old is wasting 90% of his time in school
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<blockquote data-quote="Loony Smurf" data-source="post: 5712" data-attributes="member: 1695"><p>my 7 yr old his teacher last year thought was ADD. So did I. his pediatrician gave us some forms to fill out and put him on adderall just a couple weeks before school let out. his preformance in school improved drastically, but evenings were horrid, and he was having nightmares...when school was over i took him off them. So far this school year he hasn't been on them. Now he's not doing hardly anything in schoool, the teacher can't even get him to do anything if she's sitting Right there with him if there's Any kind of distraction, even anyone else in the room. he messes with stuff and breaks it, she says he has an attention span the size of a gnat...yes her words. he passed a screening for the gifted and talented program, and they tested his IQ but he only tested average even though anybody talking to him Knows he's Very bright. they suspect his IQ test even was affected by his inability to pay attention. he forgets everything , in one ear and out the other. he's reading on a first grade level and he's in second grade. she didn't say on his math. I know he's really bright, just like the rest of my kids are....but i don't want to have to medicate him for him to be able to function in school. the teacher says that unless he's 2 years behind in a subject they won't qualify him for an IEP or anything. </p><p></p><p>So i guess i need ideas, how do i get them to be able to teach him without medicating him? he's not really learning a thing right now...he even ends up in trouble in gym cause he doesn't pay attention to what the teacher says...and i gave up on homework after a week of fighting for 4 hours to get 1 sentence written 3 nights in a row. </p><p></p><p>i'm no stranger to sped, my 11 yr old has an IEP, but his problems wouldn't have been helped by medications. seems the school just wants that with this one. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/919Mad.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Loony Smurf, post: 5712, member: 1695"] my 7 yr old his teacher last year thought was ADD. So did I. his pediatrician gave us some forms to fill out and put him on adderall just a couple weeks before school let out. his preformance in school improved drastically, but evenings were horrid, and he was having nightmares...when school was over i took him off them. So far this school year he hasn't been on them. Now he's not doing hardly anything in schoool, the teacher can't even get him to do anything if she's sitting Right there with him if there's Any kind of distraction, even anyone else in the room. he messes with stuff and breaks it, she says he has an attention span the size of a gnat...yes her words. he passed a screening for the gifted and talented program, and they tested his IQ but he only tested average even though anybody talking to him Knows he's Very bright. they suspect his IQ test even was affected by his inability to pay attention. he forgets everything , in one ear and out the other. he's reading on a first grade level and he's in second grade. she didn't say on his math. I know he's really bright, just like the rest of my kids are....but i don't want to have to medicate him for him to be able to function in school. the teacher says that unless he's 2 years behind in a subject they won't qualify him for an IEP or anything. So i guess i need ideas, how do i get them to be able to teach him without medicating him? he's not really learning a thing right now...he even ends up in trouble in gym cause he doesn't pay attention to what the teacher says...and i gave up on homework after a week of fighting for 4 hours to get 1 sentence written 3 nights in a row. i'm no stranger to sped, my 11 yr old has an IEP, but his problems wouldn't have been helped by medications. seems the school just wants that with this one. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/919Mad.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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