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[quote=Anonymous]OP.  Sometimes my DS will comment on his lack of focus and issues it may have caused during the day, but it sounds to me like he might be parroting a lot of what his teachers are telling him, as opposed to him being troubled by it.

I have directly talked to his teachers many times about the attention issues.  I have a positive relationship with our IEP team.  We have adjusted his accommodations, I help him write lists to stay organized, he has a buddy he can call at home if he forgot the homework, I have his resource spec ed teacher check his assignment book before he comes home to make sure he wrote down important info, etc.

He is in the advanced math group and his teacher for that (who happens to be his homeroom teacher) has fewer complaints.  It's his reading/social studies teacher, because he has weakness in reading and writing, and so he is less inclined to pay attention in her class.  I get the feeling she is tired of constantly redirecting him to pay attention – most of the students will start up doing something and he will still be sitting there staring out the window.  She is really pushing the "he needs to be doing a lot more independently before middle school," but when I pushed, I found out through multiple sources that a lot of the kids in 5th – and in that class – are struggling to adapt to all the new expectations.

I really want to stay the course on the SSRI for now just to see how much of the anxiety we can get rid of and then see what the results are.  My oldest was screened for ADHD two years ago in middle school because she could not focus during lectures.  Turned out all the tests for ADHD were negative, but her anxiety was off-the-charts.  She's doing a million times better now with an SSRI herself, very low-dose.[/quote]

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