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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If teachers are annoyed by your kids's bounciness and talkativeness, then it's a problem at school.  He's disruptive and maybe disrespectful. You think your kid is cute and his quirks are adorable, but to a teacher who is managing a classroom of 30 kids, [b]disruptions are so incredibly difficult[/b].

I would keep trying to find the right meds, but don't give up altogether [/quote]

I am a tutor who works one on one with my ADHD students.  Some are very impulsive and interrupt verbally frequently. This is fine in a one on one environment in the sense that I can manage it, it doesn’t create negative feedback, BUT it is actually very bad for the student because if is disrupting their train of thought, their ability to follow, repeat and execute multi step processes and explanations and makes it harder for them to store information.  And, everything takes more time with these detours.

On the surface, to the parents, tutoring seems to “solve the problem”, but TBH for a substantial portion of my students the need for my services would be diminished if they were on a good medication. Medication helps 80% of people with ADHD. [/quote]

Actually there is little evidence that stimulants produce long-term academic aims. They do reduce distruptive behavior. [/quote]

My kid was diagnosed later in schooling and went from taking little to no notes (if he even had a notebook or pencil with him in class) to having normal notes. Looking back at past notebooks, he realized that he clearly was missing 80% of what was happening in the room academically. Peer notebooks were not so empty.[/quote]

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