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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard from a psychologist that some affluent parents deliberately get a false diagnosis of ADD, so their children can be allotted more time for tests and school assignments.  It makes me wonder how many people on this thread who claim that their children were redshirted for "developmental" reasons are really being honest...[/quote]

My son was redshirted for developmental issues, not ADD.  He has been in speech therapy since he was 3.  We thought he needed an extra year to work on speech therapy.  During the time we were deciding on whether to send him to kindergarten, he was starting to be self-conscious about his speech and developed a stutter because of it.  With the extra year of therapy, the stutter disappeared.  He will probably still need speech therapy for at another year, but he is not self-conscious anymore.  We made the decision after talking with his preschool teacher, future kindergarten teacher, county IEP person, a private speech therapist, an aunt who is a speech therapist, my FIL who was the director of special education for a school district, and my husband who was redshirted himself as a child.  We all agreed it was best for him to delay a year.  He will be 18 years old when he graduates, not 19, not 20.

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