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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 97751" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Yes, we came out the other side and he's medication free and doing well now. Some minor anxiety, but nothing debilitating like it was.</p><p></p><p>It was a long, long haul back but every issue he ever struggled with went sky high during that period (anxiety, obsessive behavior, ODD, sensory, etc) so he had a lot of ground to make up. The school anxiety onset at the beginning of first grade when he made the transition to all day. He was on half days for awhile then we gradually increased the time so that he was at least attending a legally full day (5 hours of instructional time) a few months later. It wasn't until the last month of school that he was doing full days. By the beginning of 2nd grade he was stable but I would say it took another full year before he was really steady on his feet emotionally and the progress has been full speed ahead since then. These past two years there have been no noticable signs of anxiety with the start up of school. I don't know if that time frame could have been sped up if we'd found the right medications but after two back to back negative reactions leaving him so low we were afraid to try.</p><p></p><p>That year that he was attending part time he was well ahead of his peer academically. If he hadn't been ahead or no progress was being made, I think a therapeutic day school would have been appropriate. I definitely wouldn't have gone the route we did if he was losing academic ground for very long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 97751, member: 701"] Yes, we came out the other side and he's medication free and doing well now. Some minor anxiety, but nothing debilitating like it was. It was a long, long haul back but every issue he ever struggled with went sky high during that period (anxiety, obsessive behavior, ODD, sensory, etc) so he had a lot of ground to make up. The school anxiety onset at the beginning of first grade when he made the transition to all day. He was on half days for awhile then we gradually increased the time so that he was at least attending a legally full day (5 hours of instructional time) a few months later. It wasn't until the last month of school that he was doing full days. By the beginning of 2nd grade he was stable but I would say it took another full year before he was really steady on his feet emotionally and the progress has been full speed ahead since then. These past two years there have been no noticable signs of anxiety with the start up of school. I don't know if that time frame could have been sped up if we'd found the right medications but after two back to back negative reactions leaving him so low we were afraid to try. That year that he was attending part time he was well ahead of his peer academically. If he hadn't been ahead or no progress was being made, I think a therapeutic day school would have been appropriate. I definitely wouldn't have gone the route we did if he was losing academic ground for very long. [/QUOTE]
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