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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 667958" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>This kid has been on various stimulants and they ratchet up his anxiety so much that any benefit he was getting wasn't worth the skinny nervous wreck of a kid that was falling apart before our eyes. We are giving the Strattera two more weeks (doctor's recommendation). He is calmer, less prone to meltdowns--unless he's taunted, made fun of, and made miserable by the boys at school. He's still short-tempered and sad, but better than before. </p><p></p><p>Focus in the classroom is still a real problem. He has a wonderful teacher that is trying really hard to present different ways of having him produce anything that she can assess, but he keeps getting his butt thrown out of school, so he's missing a lot. Hopefully an IEP will prevent these suspensions. I fear that they are going to try and force him out of the school into a different placement in another school district. His district doesn't have any special classes for kids with emotional/behavioral disabilities. I'm a Special Education teacher and work with those kids and I think it be the worst possible idea to have him in a class like that and would violate his least restrictive environment in a big way. But this is a small district and they are out of compliance on so many things that it's laughable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 667958, member: 13260"] This kid has been on various stimulants and they ratchet up his anxiety so much that any benefit he was getting wasn't worth the skinny nervous wreck of a kid that was falling apart before our eyes. We are giving the Strattera two more weeks (doctor's recommendation). He is calmer, less prone to meltdowns--unless he's taunted, made fun of, and made miserable by the boys at school. He's still short-tempered and sad, but better than before. Focus in the classroom is still a real problem. He has a wonderful teacher that is trying really hard to present different ways of having him produce anything that she can assess, but he keeps getting his butt thrown out of school, so he's missing a lot. Hopefully an IEP will prevent these suspensions. I fear that they are going to try and force him out of the school into a different placement in another school district. His district doesn't have any special classes for kids with emotional/behavioral disabilities. I'm a Special Education teacher and work with those kids and I think it be the worst possible idea to have him in a class like that and would violate his least restrictive environment in a big way. But this is a small district and they are out of compliance on so many things that it's laughable. [/QUOTE]
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