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[quote=Anonymous]No, I'm glad we waited to see how he did without them. It made us more sure of our decision when the time came. Kids start meds at all different ages. For some with milder cases, they are able to make it to second or third grade, especially if they just have the inattentive subtype. But with the combined subtype, as our son has, my feeling is that the impulsivity is really difficult to address without meds. We've done behavior therapy and he goes to OT once a week. I think the OT has helped with motor planning a little, but I don't think the therapy did much. His teacher was willing to try pretty much anything and everything...and we did. Behavior contracts, Weighted vest, fidget toys, special seat cushions, etc. it's hard at this age...as they get older, you can implement things like chunking assignments, additional time on tests, even getting a scribe for writing assignments. But none of that is relevant in kindergarten, it's much more about the behavioral/social component. Do you see anyone (psychologist, dev. ped)? If so, what do they say about meds? We had two different professionals -- the psychologist leading his therapy group and his dev. ped. both suggest that it might be time to consider meds., so we felt pretty confident we weren't jumping the gun.[/quote]

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