This is a timely thread for me, lol! We've never been to a behavioral optimologist but Duckie received Occupational Therapist (OT) last year because she has visual tracking problems... she has been dismissed from Occupational Therapist (OT) because she's performing well enough now. BUT... I just realized yesterday that she's not performing at 100%. We've had numerous battles about her math homework, she usually gets a work sheet M-TH evenings. She doesn't have a lot of space to show her work so her teacher has her use a separate sheet and then place the answer on the worksheet. The separate sheet gets stapled to the work sheet and turned in.
It can take Duckie a good 40 minutes or more to do 15 to 20 problems on her own. I tried something new yesterday: I read her the problem, she wrote it on the separate sheet, did the math, I pointed to where the answer went, she wrote it in. She did 18 problems in 22 minutes! She had absolutely no problem with the math itself, she gets tripped up moving back and forth between the sheets. So then she gets frustrated (who wants to spend 40+ minutes on one subject of homework each night in third grade?), so she acts out. I'll probably talk to the school Occupational Therapist (OT) about stragedies we can use at home to help do better in this area.