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[quote=Anonymous]Sometimes 1st grade is a step up academically and reveals additional diagnoses/problems that often go along with ADD/Inattentive -- slow processing, difficulty with executive functioning, and/or dysgraphia. This is what happened for our child. Disruptive behavior was often an attempt to evade certain classroom tasks that were becoming un-doable for DC -- like creative writing or writing in response to reading comprehension. DC was very clever about covering up. It took a lot of my visiting in the classroom under the guise of "volunteering" to figure out what was going on. The teacher was too busy with other kids to follow my kid closely enough to realize what was happening. ADD/Inattentive can also be worse when the child is bright but not receiving challenging work -- more reason to tune out. I would investigate more thoroughly before just jumping on meds as the magic bullet. (Although I do support meds if needed.)[/quote]
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