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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is a third grader with a late June birthday - younger side for the grade. She has always seemed to lag behind, but not enough to raise huge red flags. In first grade she was slow to read but caught on quickly after being put in an intervention group. She has always been slower to pick up math concepts and learn basic facts. She has been extremely behind in Lexia and Reflex each year and is now also behind in IXL. Her teachers send her school iPad home and ask us to work on these at home. We recently discovered that she didn’t know the months of the year (though I know she knew them in kindergarten!), and memorizing the continents and oceans has been a challenge, despite learning these last year as well. There are a thousand examples like this.

I have brought up concerns to her teachers each year and nobody seems that worried. Her first grade teacher told me he thought she might always be “on the bottom” and have to work extra hard, which I didn’t love hearing about a six year old. Standards based report cards tell us nothing.

I feel like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it seems like that could happen in third grade or above. I don’t want her to feel like a failure. She is very, very aware of how easily things come to other kids. It really bothers her when she is called out for errors or put on the “behind” list for these apps. But I can’t tell if this is my gut or some anxiety speaking. I know it can take months to get a neuropsych appt, and part of me thinks she should put her name on the list at some point this year, knowing we could always cancel the appt. Would love some thoughts from experienced parents here. We can afford a neuropsych but I don’t want to just waste money (and put her through it) if it’s not necessary.[/quote]

Sounds like my inattentive ADHD kid, although he had other symptoms at that age, like he was struggling in all organized sports because he would daydream rather than follow instructions, and at home, it was tough to get him to make his bed, brush his teeth, eat breakfast and get out the door in less than an hour, and he required constant superversion.  He struggled with things you raised, in middle school, he still mixes up the months of the year.  He struggles to learn anything that he doesn't value, but if he values, he can hyperfocus and do well. Our pediatrician referred us to a pediatric ADHD clinic, and they did the neurosych evaluation in kindergarten, and he ended up on Adderall.  As a teenager, he also does cognitive therapy to improve his processing speed and executive functioning.

It's hard to say if your DD will react the same, but I used Beast Academy from AoPS with my DS, starting in second grade, and his math scores skyrocketed from mid-50 % to 99%, where they have remained.  The comic books, videos, and classes just worked for his ADHD brain, where school math did nothing for him.  Now that he's older, he likes their Alchemus and online community.

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