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[quote=Anonymous]I'd be cautious about assuming ADHD right out of the gate and get an outside assessment without the school being involved. Sometimes these schools have very particular environments or lean very heavily on diagnoses rather than assessing their own learning environment. For example, at my daughter's girls school, there was a lot of redshirting, and one year, all the people with younger kids were told their daughter's had ADHD. Elementary school is boring for gifted kids, and if they are being compared to kids a year older, they look squirmy, while the older kids are very good at doing the very basic exec function tasks gifted kids actually need to learn how to do. It's not an ideal mix, and you get told oh your kid has ADHD, and you think it's right because surely the school knows. People with really active boys send them to boys' schools because they know that compared to girls they look like they are misbehaving when they actually just need more running around than a girl would, etc.

Get an outside neuropsychological and then talk to them about what the school is saying vs. what you see and then also talk to them what they think of the school and how they handle it. Also, ask the school about how they handle standardized testing. You want a school that just does the ERBs and gives you a score. It's a way of making sure the kids are on track and a way to keep an eye on their progress. The main thing you want in a school is transparency, and you don't want to ever entirely rely on their assessment of your kid. [/quote]

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