I don't know about the neurofeedback. No, pepperidge, money and time I do not have LOL!
I do not think easy child has anxiety.
The problem with easy child is (as the psychiatrist and therapist have noticed also) he is a huge attention seeker. So, pretend all of us are standing around and he starts doing something stupid. Marg starts laughing at him. He'll get goofier. Then smallworld starts chuckling, and he notices that. He'll get louder and dumber. See where I'm going? He thinks he's a comedian.
The problem with him is, he's not funny. And when he is, it's at times that are inappropriate, i.e. class.
So, he mimicks the teacher, the kids in the class laugh (during teaching time, argh), and he continues, because they're laughing. Gah!
The pencils, tearing up papers - I guess it's new this year. He really dislikes his teacher, because all she does is complain, whine, moan and groan about him. In all honesty, I don't care for her much, although I wouldn't dare tell him that. What, exactly, he is doing, I'm not sure of, because I'm not there. I take what the teacher says at face value, I honestly do not believe her 100% of the time either. I think one day he found a piece of paper on the ground, picked it up, started ripping off pieces, and she caught him. It was only one incident. Ditto to the pencils, one day, he was breaking them in half. I told him if he did it again I'd take the money out of his piggy bank and he could go buy the class more, and he never did it again.
He's doing these things because he's not paying attention to the lesson. No, he's really not paying attention, and no, he can't do the homework that evening because he's not paying attention. His focus/attention is in the trash can.
He doesn't have an Learning Disability (LD) problem. He understands. He's smart. In 1st grade he was doing Dylan's 2nd grade homework. I don't think he's gifted or genuis, but I think he just lost his attention span somewhere.
I honestly don't know what happened. Truthfully, I never had a problem with him at all until we moved to the mountains. When we lived in the city, he went through 2 years of preschool, kindergarten, 1st and half of 2nd grade, and I never got one call or one complaint. Never. So, figure that one out?
The mountains gave him ADHD? Yeah, that's believable.
Janna