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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hire an educational advocate to help you in these meetings.  The teachers are using the meetings to pressure you into medication, which is none of their beeswax which med you might be trying at the moment (or taking a break entirely).  They need to provide services regardless of medication status du jour.  Medication is not the handy scapegoat of every IEP meeting.

Consider a non-stimulant (such as Strattera).  That will have fewer side effects.  Again, this is not the choice of your child's teachers.

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OP didn't say the school was pressuring them.  They said it was recommended to talk to the pediatrician.  It sounds like they are providing a high level of support at school, and it is not really improving his kid's ability to focus and pay attention, which it wouldn't because you can't really teach something like that when it's beyond your control.  If a kid is "zoned out" during instruction so they miss some or all, they can't perform to the level of their non focus-deficient peers.  And this accumulates over time to lots of missed instruction.  Teachers sound like they are doing what they can but at the end of the day ADHD is a medical condition that benefits from treatment.[/quote]

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