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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to take a slightly different tack than other posters.

Some people are not auditory learners.  This is common with Adhd, but affects others as well.  I am not an auditory learner and absolutely cannot pay attention when information I conveyed only orally.  Nonetheless, I graduated near the top of my class from an Ivy and have a successful career.  After elementary school, it is very rare for information to be conveyed in solely oral format.  When I attend (or give) presentations, there is generally a power point and/or an outline accompanying the presentation.  In upper grades, this is also true, and also the information is generally also contained in some sort of textbook.  Also, older students can take notes of oral presentations.  For me, writing the information down on paper so that I could see if was enough to help me absorb the information.  But in elementary school, I typically just read (or got in trouble for not paying attention).  I was in a school with very large classes (40+) so the teachers didn't really care.  My father, who went to a one room school house, also read his way through elementary school.  The teachers just let him read every single book in the school, then sent him to high school when he was done.

I agree with others that he can't be rude, and that he needs to learn the content that is being conveyed.  But I think others are being simplistic that it's just a matter of him putting the book down.  Can the teacher maybe work with you to make sure he's reading books that cover the material discussed in class?  (like if they are talking about Martin Luther King, he should be reading a book about Dr. King).  If he's even read a topic-specific book in advance, that might help him attend better to the lecture--that helps me a lot, as then the oral information is more of a refresher, or development of something I already know, and not new information.

On the impulse control thing, I agree wth others that this can be a part of it, especially if the issue is that he just can't wait to see how a particular book ends.  Are you seeing similar "book addiction" or other impulsive behavior  at home? [/quote]

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