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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspected at about 4, and we had him evaluated when preschool had concerns.  Until about 8 I was told that while my son met some criteria, he did not meet the standards for a diagnosis and we should "watch him."  I always thought he had ADHD.  In third grade, he had a really difficult year and the teachers called us in for a meeting.  I took him back to the behavioral ped we took him to when he was 4, and then he was officially diagnosed and medicated.  I was not at all surprised.  I'm glad we were given a more conservative approach, because while he had behavior problems on preschool and kindergarten, it did not really affect him academically.  The medications helped him tremendously once we started them. [/quote]

This is simular to our experience, only DC is just finishing 1st grade and was just diagnosed a couple weeks ago. Preschool teachers mentioned kid was very distracted during "table times," oblivious to the need to work on the paper (or whatever) in front of her. But they thought she'd grow out of it. I suspected ADHD as a possibility, but it wasn't until the second half of first grade that the I felt she had enough of the behaviors on the checklists I found online to likely have it. We are not medicating at this point, per the peds recommendation,  because grades are excellent and social skills are good, but I suspect we probably will in later grades as classes require more organization. [/quote]

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