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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 194869" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>"I personally think he needs more Seroquel in the afternoon. Opinions?"</p><p></p><p>Yep.</p><p></p><p>Also, I think you need to call a Learning Team meeting ASAP to discuss URGENTLY the need to modify his IEP. You need to include - THE TEACHER must ensure that the medications at lunchtime have been taken. IT IS LUDICROUS to insist that the child (in this case) must be the one to be responsible - he needs the medications, in order to BE responsible. </p><p></p><p>I would also include homework issues in the IEP. Now, if it turns out tat taking his lunchtime medications properly fixes the homework problems, then no worries. but chances are, it won't. In which case - either increase the medications again, or take a later dose to deal with homework, or minimise homework, or ask that homework be restricted to weekends only.</p><p></p><p>As for the school being lax about medications - I HATE THIS! We went through this with difficult child 1 also. He now takes a morning-only sustained-release form of dexamphetamine, privately compounded. I would ask the school if they would be so insistent on difficult child reminding them, if he had epilepsy, or diabetes. I would ask them specifically - if they failed to follow-through on ensuring a diabetic or epileptic child took his medications and the child subsequently had a crisis as a result, would they feel responsible? And if so, then why can they not do the same for difficult child?</p><p></p><p>This is serious stuff. Teachers cannot, and should not, expect a child like this to learn personal responsibility like any other student, when this is part of the syndrome. As I've said before, it is as unreasonable as expecting a blind child to copy accurately form the blackboard. The trouble is, too many people see ADHD as "not really the same sort of problem" as something more clearly medical, like diabetes.</p><p></p><p>We went through this sort of problem when difficult child 1 was about 10 years old - in our entire state, the public schools refused to medicate ANY kids until the legality of it all was sorted out. Parents had to go to the schools and medicate their own kids. In our case, difficult child 1 had to leave his school, walk through inner city ghetto streets to where his father worked, and get his medications from his father. At 10 years old. Of course, they made exceptions for a kid with epilepsy or similar. </p><p></p><p>Another thing we did - we bought difficult child 1 a watch with multiple alarms which we set to remind him to take his medications (once the schools went back to medicating the kids). It helped a lot, but didn't fix it.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with this one.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 194869, member: 1991"] "I personally think he needs more Seroquel in the afternoon. Opinions?" Yep. Also, I think you need to call a Learning Team meeting ASAP to discuss URGENTLY the need to modify his IEP. You need to include - THE TEACHER must ensure that the medications at lunchtime have been taken. IT IS LUDICROUS to insist that the child (in this case) must be the one to be responsible - he needs the medications, in order to BE responsible. I would also include homework issues in the IEP. Now, if it turns out tat taking his lunchtime medications properly fixes the homework problems, then no worries. but chances are, it won't. In which case - either increase the medications again, or take a later dose to deal with homework, or minimise homework, or ask that homework be restricted to weekends only. As for the school being lax about medications - I HATE THIS! We went through this with difficult child 1 also. He now takes a morning-only sustained-release form of dexamphetamine, privately compounded. I would ask the school if they would be so insistent on difficult child reminding them, if he had epilepsy, or diabetes. I would ask them specifically - if they failed to follow-through on ensuring a diabetic or epileptic child took his medications and the child subsequently had a crisis as a result, would they feel responsible? And if so, then why can they not do the same for difficult child? This is serious stuff. Teachers cannot, and should not, expect a child like this to learn personal responsibility like any other student, when this is part of the syndrome. As I've said before, it is as unreasonable as expecting a blind child to copy accurately form the blackboard. The trouble is, too many people see ADHD as "not really the same sort of problem" as something more clearly medical, like diabetes. We went through this sort of problem when difficult child 1 was about 10 years old - in our entire state, the public schools refused to medicate ANY kids until the legality of it all was sorted out. Parents had to go to the schools and medicate their own kids. In our case, difficult child 1 had to leave his school, walk through inner city ghetto streets to where his father worked, and get his medications from his father. At 10 years old. Of course, they made exceptions for a kid with epilepsy or similar. Another thing we did - we bought difficult child 1 a watch with multiple alarms which we set to remind him to take his medications (once the schools went back to medicating the kids). It helped a lot, but didn't fix it. Good luck with this one. Marg [/QUOTE]
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