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[quote=Anonymous]Perhaps you should ask on the Special Needs forum, OP.

My child is twice exceptional: he has severe ADHD, low processing speed and host of other issues. Also a high IQ. We've had to support his executive functioning deficits so that he could take the advanced courses he wanted. We've always been his organizational coaches.

It looks as if your child is way less impacted by his ADHD than ours, which is why you haven't yet had to help him, but for us it's been years of adapting to our son's needs. He's gradually becoming more independent, but college will probably be a difficult transition. He has such an extreme range of functioning between what he's academically capable of doing, and his organizational and other issues, that there's no perfect option: leaving him to his own devices led to failing a grade years ago, which for a child with an intellectual bent and a love of learning is really a crying shame.

You can perhaps hire an organizational coach, if you really don't have the time to step into that role. Just know they're expensive. But I think you should make every effort to further your child's academic goals.[/quote]

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