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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD was diagnosed with ADHD at 5, and at 7 we had a full neuropsych that confirmed the ADHD and diagnosed a reading disorder. The evaluator said the reading issues *could* possibly be related to the inattention.

Fast forward my kid is now 16, and decidedly does NOT have a reading disorder. She has been on every single stimulant (I think actually, except Adderall). They are ineffective at best and cause bad side effects at worst (Metadate was the only one they didn’t cause extreme irritability but was ineffective, all the others caused intolerable side effects).

A psychiatric nurse practitioner we recently switched to told us that stimulants only work for around 70% of people.

My DD is inattentive as well. Impulsive to some degree (verbally, with food) but the inattention has the most impact.
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OP here. What was causing your kid's reading challenges then, and how did you work things out? Or did they not have reading challenges? Our kid clearly does. I think what we're trying to help here is to see whether part of his issue with academics is attention. He is going into 3rd and probably barely at a 1st grade level (maybe mid K, at least for writing). It feels like he doesn't retain things like I would expect either, and he has shocking gaps in knowledge - i.e. basically didn't know the days of the week in order until a few months ago and still doesn't know the months. He's a COVID kid, so there were some gaps in early education, and we question how strong his prior school was... But these feel really basic, like things you would just pick up without a lot of explicit instruction. Neuropsych eval didn't show any other learning disabilities - just dysgraphia, dyslexia, and ADHD.[/quote]

We did have some reading intervention in school. She did seem to struggle with reading, but I don’t think the intervention was what did it. I think it was 4th grade when she just seemed to “get it.” There are still some gaps in comprehension, but she’s since been diagnosed with ASD and that is also common. But she reads completely fluently, and when she’s interested in the subject and pays attention, she also comprehends everything. She has dysgraphia too. Diagnosed in 2021 through another neuropsych[/quote]

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