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[quote=Anonymous]^ I should add that one of our kids was way ahead in some areas even for the HGC program and was always allowed by teachers to skip out on skills that were already mastered and do self-study or teacher-guided work.

Do you have a behavioral plan that includes lots of positive reinforcements?  IMO, MCPS teachers focus on negative behavioral reinforcements that only make the situation worse.

If ADHD is an issue, have you examined social pragmatic communication? Was there any testing for this in the psychological reports?  This was a problem for our ADHD kid in ES.  That DC did not understand the implicit rules of the classroom or implicit wishes of teacher (tone of voice, body language, not explicitly stated demands, etc.) and so was constantly getting in trouble because of misunderstandings between teacher and child.  Our SLP did some therapy with DC to help DC understand what was "expected" and "not expected" in various situations.  Look at the work of Michelle Garcia Winner on Socialthinking.com [/quote]

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