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[quote=Anonymous]I’m very worried about my 4th grade son who has adhd. He’s very smart but his difficulty focusing in class and impulsive and disruptive behavior are causing problems in his classroom. He is in a co-taught 4th grade classroom. His classroom teacher reports that:
- he is allowed to walk around/pace in the back of the room during lessons if he needs to move. During this time  the special Ed teacher monitors him and will cue him for attention if instructions are being given, he seems to be not paying attention to the lesson, etc.
Despite this, he very very frequently comes to sit with her after lessons and says he wasn’t listening, doesn’t know what to do, etc. there are very specific step by step instructions on the board for independent work, always when students are working on a task.

-impulsive/disruptive behavior: during lessons, he will be moving around in the back of the room and will also sometimes bang on the table, stomp on the ground, bang his metal water bottle on the desk, yell out random comments. Some of this has devolved into class clown behavior where he is looking to make kids laugh or distract them.

-he has a 2.5 hour block of instruction (2 subjects) that is very long for him. Breaks and snack are integrated but at the end of the day it’s a very long period of time of instruction for him to sustain. He starts to fall apart as the time goes on add when offered a break to take a walk, etc, he refuses. The issues escalate as the time goes on.

-he rushes his work, doesn’t read or follow directions, makes small errors that necessitate correcting which causes him frustration. He does not like having the teacher sit with him to slow down and be careful with his work either, because he wants to be done.

He is not on medication but I’m wondering if it’s time. What can I expect of the teacher? Is it her responsibility to reteach him everything he misses on a daily basis due to adhd? Should I request pull out? He is smart but his struggles with adhd are really impacting him. There are probably 7 kids with iep’s in the classroom altogether.[/quote]

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