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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand the teacher.  This happened in my DS class with another child.  (DS also has ADHD.)  The teacher did use accomodations, but when you have a child who cannot focus for more than a few minutes, what good are accomodations?  [b]This is a question of severity of symptoms [/b] and sadly, the child described is really struggling and everyone is paying for it.  Not to mention the self-esteem issues for the poor kid because of the constant stream of instructions. [/quote]

I don't know if OP's child has a severe or mild case of ADHD.  Assuming it is mild-moderate and there is a glimmer of possibility it could be managed by accommodations there is no consistency in how it is addressed in the school.  One PP mentioned that in 2nd grade they had tried 10 different accommodations without a formal 504.  After two years and two meetings with guidance counselor and teacher plus EMT and an outside diagnosis, we were just starting to try some of the things PP listed. We were doing research and trying to suggest accommodations  to them but it seemed to me it would be more efficient if there was a checklist standard for ADHD/symptoms of ADHD that the teacher can work with the parent on which accommodations to try and feedback and what has been done.  If 5-10% of kids are being diagnosed we can't be the first nor the last so why does it feel like we are a pioneer going into these meetings?

I definitely agree about severity being an important part of the conversation. I'm very cautious about taking long-term medication in general and it's like going on blood pressure medication when you are just meeting the threshold for high blood pressure and you haven't tried to address it with diet.  There are side effects to any medication and it can take trial and error to figure out what works.  I didn't want to go down the path unless I knew accommodations alone would not work but to get to that point, I needed to see something like PPs that listed the ton of accommodations that were tried in the classroom in partnership with the parents.  I couldn't even get to that point.[/quote]

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