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[quote=Anonymous]My son started his first year of Montessori preschool at 3.5. Socially, it was an eye-opener: children would run up to me at pick-up time and say: "Do you know what DS did today? He did...." Or "Why is DS so weird?". He was not aggressive, just completely unable to relate and cooperate in group play with other children. He would babble incoherently at inopportune times (had a speech delay as well).

That first year, his teachers said that he was just immature and needed extra time to adjust. Then the second year they started saying how inattentive and daydreaming he would become during Montessori lessons. The third year, the heavy hints finally percolated into our hitherto clueless brains and we had him evaluated by a dev. Ped, who diagnosed ADHD-NOS when DS was 5.

Take this with a grain of salt, though, because I believe my son also has either high-functioning autism or Asperger's, and I am planning to have him evaluated for that this summer. Perhaps his difficult social adjustment at 3.5 was due to this more than the ADHD?

Good luck![/quote]

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