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<blockquote data-quote="Zardo" data-source="post: 459290" data-attributes="member: 12490"><p>An IEP is the ONLY way to support a child with these issues. By having an IEP, the Special Education team will work wiht you to support your child. When something goes wrong, they will re-convene to discuss what has been tried and what to try next. Once you get the support of that team, you will meet with people who have worked to help kids like him before. Before we went this route, all meetings at school with teachers and admins were about my kid being a behavior problem. Once we got to the support team, they shook their head and felt that he was a kid who needed support at school and that once he found succes, hopefully, the other factors would improve. You will be very surprised at the differing attitudes once you meet the Special Education team. Also, you talk about finding "a more serious learning disability", I will tell you that the ADHD/Executive Function disorder is a serious condition. There are borderline kids that are not seriously affected, but for my son, the mix of slow processing speed, poor executive functioning, and handwriting issues that very typically go along with it, and the resulting frustration of teachers who view him as disengaged has made the tradtional classroom a place where he does not feel welcome. Maybe there are other contributing factors, maybe not. But for many kids, the mixed bag of what goes along with ADHD is a significant problem. I have seen kids with other differences but no ADHD be more accepting of help as they don't have the other things that complicate progress such as slow processing or limited stamina.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardo, post: 459290, member: 12490"] An IEP is the ONLY way to support a child with these issues. By having an IEP, the Special Education team will work wiht you to support your child. When something goes wrong, they will re-convene to discuss what has been tried and what to try next. Once you get the support of that team, you will meet with people who have worked to help kids like him before. Before we went this route, all meetings at school with teachers and admins were about my kid being a behavior problem. Once we got to the support team, they shook their head and felt that he was a kid who needed support at school and that once he found succes, hopefully, the other factors would improve. You will be very surprised at the differing attitudes once you meet the Special Education team. Also, you talk about finding "a more serious learning disability", I will tell you that the ADHD/Executive Function disorder is a serious condition. There are borderline kids that are not seriously affected, but for my son, the mix of slow processing speed, poor executive functioning, and handwriting issues that very typically go along with it, and the resulting frustration of teachers who view him as disengaged has made the tradtional classroom a place where he does not feel welcome. Maybe there are other contributing factors, maybe not. But for many kids, the mixed bag of what goes along with ADHD is a significant problem. I have seen kids with other differences but no ADHD be more accepting of help as they don't have the other things that complicate progress such as slow processing or limited stamina. [/QUOTE]
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