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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I absolutely cannot believe that no one has told you to have him assessed for ADHD before this.  The professional you have been working with have failed you, I fear.  
What you're describing sounds like very classic ADHD.  My son is now in second grade (and reads at a 4-5th grade level), and has significant ADHD.  Without his medications, he is as you describe.  We struggled through preschool without medication, doing OT and therapy and none of it helped much at all.  We started a very small dose of medication (using a conservative psychiatrist as the prescribing doc) after he started K, and I was so, so glad I did not wait longer.  We've gradually increased the dosage as he grows.  Even with the medication, he still struggles and we have accommodations in the classroom.  But when his medication is out of whack, it's really awful.  Kids that age very quickly get the reputation as the "trouble maker" kid, and its so heartbreaking when that happens.  There are pros and cons about meds, obviously, but when it comes to the impulsivity, nothing else works nearly as well.

We did our initial neuropsych with Stixrud, FWIW.  Insurance paid part of it.  [/quote]

Thanks for this.  No one has told us this!  I promise.  Ugh.  Not the psychologist we went to, not our pediatrician (I now recall we talked to our ped too).  And not his teacher from last year.  I met with the teacher and the school psychologist and asked them whether I should have him evaluated, in their opinion, and they said not yet, in their opinion.  Because the accommodations they had in place (informally) seemed to be working.  But I think we just had a great teacher last year who knew how to handle our kid.  And I did take seriously their thoughts because they know our kid well.  I have been feeling so lost, and the responses on this board have been so helpful.  I really appreciate it.  [/quote]

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