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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a teacher for 15 years. Parents who do not work as partners with teachers greatly diminish the quality of service a teacher can and will be able to offer a student. One of my current students is untreated and the mother is opposed. Unfortunately, as a result, I cannot offer her extra services the other students don't have. She has quite literally never finished a single assignment the whole year because she has neither the foundation to understand nor the attention span to keep her in her seat for more than 3-4 minutes at a time. She will be repeating the year.
What's even worse is that while we are letting her "be her natural self" she has compromised the learning of the entire class. Instead of being able to work on strategies and pull in resources I am forced to refer her for discipline.

I have 2 children of my own with ADHD, and both are medicated. One is disfunctional without and the other is greatly compromised. Both would be severe classroom problems if they were not medicated. [/quote]

I'm not sure what you mean exactly.  My dd started 2nd grade this year, and her teacher started immediately implementing accommodations, increased movement breaks, small groups for tests, help from peers, check in/check out with school psychologist, social skills group, wiggle chair.  She did this all before we got an official diagnosis and 504 plan.  Can't you implement these accommodations?  What does the parent have to do with these?  We have not yet tried medication because we just got the diagnosis in December, and we were waiting for the results of these accommodations.  At this point, I think we will try meds, but now trying to decide on timing.  Since we are so close to the summer, I am thinking to start meds in 3rd grade.  [/quote]

I also didn't understand what the teacher was implying. With my son, his teacher implemented a bunch of accommodations (behavior chart, timer, preferential seating, noise-blocking headphones, special chair, study carrel, movement breaks, weighted vest) before we even had a 504 in place. That said, we did work together with her on these things and were in frequent communication. None of the accommodations really made a discernible difference, so we eventually started medication later that year. He was also doing OT and behavioral therapy at the time.[/quote]

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