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[quote=Anonymous]What I said to my 11 year old is, We have noticed you have had some trouble focusing, have you? We know you try hard, we know you are very bright, and we are wondering if there is something that is making it hard for you to focus. We'd like to talk to some experts who specialize in this and other kinds of challenges. We'd like to do some tests to help us understand your strengths and weaknesses . Depending on what we find out, we may see that there are ways to make studying/focusing at school a bit easier for you.

He immediately acknowledged the focus issue and was on board right away.

We personally skipped the ped/family doctor step. Any responsible doctor should refer you, not diagnose or dismiss concerns. And you don't need a referral. A ped can diagnose, of course, but it is not the most thorough way to go about this. My point is, there are a number of issues that can cause ADHD like symptoms and the best way to know what you are looking at is to do psycho-educational or neuropsych testing. Diagnosing is not an exact science but those would be the gold standards. Otherwise you run the risk of missing the real issue, over-diagnosing, under-diagnosing. [/quote]

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