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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be prepared to be judged and asked at the IEP meeting why your child isn't already taking medication, like it is up to the team to decide to medicate your child.  :shock: [/quote]

When a school is faced with a kid who absolutely cannot learn because they absolutely cannot focus and the parents refuse to medicate - what magic wand would you like the school to wave to make it al better??[/quote]

Unless you have a Medical Degree (which no one in my IEP meetings have), it is not your place to judge whether or not I should medicate my child.  The meds come with serious side effects some of which the IEP team is not privy to because frankly it bears no weight on the IEP decision at hand.  BTW - My child's doctor prefers that the school tries behavioral interventions before going the medication route.  He is flabbergasted when school personnel send parents to his office for medications BEFORE implementing an IEP and giving accommodations.[/quote]

Actually I do have a medical degree but it's still not my place to judge, you are free to do whatever you would like,  the FACT is that adhd is a medical condition and no amount of extra time for tests is going to help a child focus.  But since I understand all to well about side effects and all of the issues surrounding these medications, I, too, was hesitant to medicate.  Any responsible parent would be.

But the bottom line is that all of us who medicate were opposed to the very notion of giving our child medication at first.  We just came to see that it is necessary not to make our children academic superstars but to preserve some semblance of their self esteem while they continually witness their peers leapfrogging past them academically and socially.[/quote]

12:22 coming back to second this heartily! I'm a biologist doing research, my husband is a doctor, and we were SO AGAINST meds. We are still not happy with the lack of research on very long-term effects of ADHD medication on the brain, but you must realize that for many children, it's either meds or abject failure at school, and self-esteem in the toilet. No amount of therapies and social skills groups, etc, are going to have the same effect as delivering a molecule that targets their frontal lobe directly. I'm not happy to be changing my child's brain chemistry on a daily basis, believe me! But there was no alternative for us. We had tried everything else.

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