ADD Inatentative type?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Just wanted to give an update on 10 year old DD. No diagnosis resulted from the evaluation. She tested low on attention measures and the psychologist said she has mild ADHD inattentive type, but not severe enough to diagnose or medicate. She wrote up some accommodations to give to her new school. She also tested 4th percentile in visual-motor processing, which was not totally unexpected as I've seen her have difficulty drawing, copying, and writing. This is a kid who absolutely hates to draw and now I know why! She can't break things down visually. We have started doing a few things at home to help her improve.

The good news was she tested average or above average on every other measure and at a 7-8 grade academic level overall even with her average IQ. So, she's managing well. We will work with the school and hope things go well. The psychologist mentioned she would be willing write up more accommodations if things are not going well into the year.

Thank you for the support everyone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I suspect that my daughter has ADD inattentive type. She is currently 10 years old in fourth grade. She has a lot of trouble with forgetfulness, disorganization, sloppiness, and what appears to be laziness. She has also recently been lying a great deal in order to cover her lack of work. I'm not really sure what to do next. She recently had an IQ test with no score is below average but a pretty wide gap between processing speed/working memory and her reasoning ability. I've looked at a few websites but I'm not really sure I know what I'm looking for. Is there a book that someone can recommend to help get me on the right track?

I am not opposed to a full evaluation but she has no major trouble in either school, socially, or at home. I am not convinced she would be diagnosed with anything. That said, I find her exhausting to parent and I realize that there could well be something wrong. I'm not really sure what I am looking for, but I guess the main thing would be some book suggestions. If she is a mild case, maybe there are things I can do to support her.

Holy shit. Did I just write this post? I swear, you and I are living parallel lives, except my daughter is 11 and in 5th grade. Get an evaluation done, stat. We'd been living with the EXACT SAME situation as what you describe above for year and finally got an evaluation done in February. Like you, I was worried that she wouldn't be diagnosed with anything and it would all be for naught. But she was diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type, and executive functioning disorder. We recently started her on meds (recently, as in last Thursday) and not seeing any dramatic improvement so I think we're going to increase the dosage a bit. But it feels so much better to be actively doing something so I really encourage you to move forward with an evaluation. Goodness. Your line about her being exhausting to parent is my life exactly. I'm sitting here right now wishing my daughter would stop whining about how she can't do anything because she's too tired, when the truth is she can't figure out how to entertain herself because of her ADHD and EFD. It's not easy. Sending you lots of strength.

Sounds like my 11 year old too. She's being tested at Lab School this week. Can I ask what meds your daughter is on? I take Zoloft for my anxiety and it's changed my life.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP and my daughter was not diagnosed or medicated. After several direct conversations about lying and the complete removal of all screen time, DD has greatly improved. We now allow screens when she asks for a specific purpose and when we watch something as a family. I'm convinced removing her access to those YouTube channels with annoying, sassy girls is in part responsible for her improved behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP and my daughter was not diagnosed or medicated. After several direct conversations about lying and the complete removal of all screen time, DD has greatly improved. We now allow screens when she asks for a specific purpose and when we watch something as a family. I'm convinced removing her access to those YouTube channels with annoying, sassy girls is in part responsible for her improved behavior.

Really? What do you do about the sassy girls at school? Have them removed from school?