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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP who works in sp ed.  The OP asks "Do you have to medicate ADHD?"  That's the question I was giving my opinion on.  Your anecdotal experience with your own child or your childhood or adulthood as one with ADHD is interesting but maybe less relevant than my 15+ years of working with elementary kids both medicated and unmedicated.

Sp ed professionals and others who work in public schools may not advocate to a parent that they medicate their child.  We cannot say, "Larla would likely be more successful if you medicate her."  That's because we truly don't know that to be true.

I have worked with kids who did pretty well without medication, kids who were doing very badly in every aspect of school (academics, attention, behavior, socially) and then did really great once on the proper dosage of the proper medication, and many in between.  Usually it's an ongoing process, involving lots of communication between home and school and doctor, to achieve the best possible combination of dosage and med.

So, feel free to contribute your opinion about whether you have to medicate ADHD but I'm not sure why you feel the need to attack my opinion based on years of experience with students with ADHD (and multiple other disabilities).[/quote]

You're still missing my point completely, which was not that school performance is irrelevant, but that it's not the only factor that should be considered. Perhaps the context in which you have experience with ADHD has left you with a bit of tunnel vision. I will continue to follow the advice of the psychiatrist, psychologist and therapists that we've worked with that the child's full life should be considered, not just school.[/quote]

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