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[quote=Anonymous]As a director of a childcare center, the teachers' comments have been very appropriate.  Since it's a half day nursery school, the chances are the teacher has more education than if she were at a fulltime childcare center (sad but true....).  But even my teachers, who all have CDAs and about 20 years of experience, often can tell me that they are concerned about a child's behavior but they can't tell me why. When I observe it, I can put ECE language to it.  Anyway, given the way she's approached it - by telling the parents what she's done to accommodate (the class has weighted bean bags and has a sense of how to use them? and a chewy necklace used to "help a child focus"?????  I'm impressed. To me this all sounds like sensory issues rather than ADHD or ADD.  BUT the point is: there is a concern from a teacher who sees many children, but she knows she doesn't know enough to offer a specific diagnosis.  Her job is to offer her feedback that she has concerns. It's a specialist's job to test and try to figure out if there are any concerns and what they are.

Good for you having the observation from the school's developmental specialist. I do hope you'll follow up if there are any concerns.

Yes, when a child's behavior is the same no matther what (and it's delayed or out of the norm) then it could be a red flag.  BUT also when a child's behavior DIFFERS widely from one environment to another, this can be one red flag that there is a problem.  Because if the child really could do it, she/he would do it everywhere.

Finally, the environments are not actually the same, as your child spends lots of time in his room playing in his room with his CDS all by himself, and therefore doesn't need to work to focus the same as when he's at school, in the middle of 15 other children who are all active, with lots of noise, stimulation, visual and auditory stimulation, etc.[/quote]

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