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[quote=Anonymous]I have a closing in on 4 year old with moderate-severe ADHD with aspects that have been apparent for years, and a diagnosis that has been clear for a year.  Kid also has delays in social skills and some language (mostly social/pragmatic now) delays.  From a purely symptom/delay helping perspective (that is, ignoring all of the other things that go into a decision to medicate or not), I have been waffling about whether I really think the meds would help generally, because the social/language delays were evident well before the ADHD symptoms became really problematic.  I'm sure the ADHD symptoms are not helping, but I think there's another underlying deficit, so I had been thinking, why medicate, it won't touch the bigger issues which are bigger priorities right now.

But I just saw a comment in another thread that a parent said moving to medication had allowed their child to benefit from the interventions related to social skills.  And that's sort of our main problem now - virtually no progress is being made and it's maddening, and also increasingly concerning, since we're talking some of the foundational skills necessary for school success (and you know, peer relationships and the like).

So, for those of you who at least trialed medication at 4, or thereabouts, and/or continued it, did you have a similar experience?  Did it seem to make a difference with other delays /issues like in language or social skills?  Do you think those issue were due to ADHD or another issue (diagnosable/sum-up-able or not)?  Just trying to get a read on whether my original thinking (in simplest form - issues are not caused by ADHD therefore not likely helped by treating ADHD) is incorrect, and whether I need to rerun the calculus on medicating with some updated possibilities.
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