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I also concentrated on increasing his academic competence, thinking that if the work were easier for him, he'd do it more readily in class. So far this hasn't panned out at all as expected.

It isn't a competence issue, it's behavioral. I've come down hard on him and it hasn't worked. It feels ridiculous to cajole and encourage him to the degree that I have to in order to get basic assignments done. Teachers don't have time for this additional business. He needs to perform.

If you've knuckled down with your child, how long did it take for the results to show at school? For those of you who have addressed this as a behavioral, rather than an academic issue, what was the root cause of the resistance? How'd you address it?

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12:57 again.  "Knuckled down" for this behavior does not work.  It only increases the anxiety.  What works for my DS is that he gets rewarded for what he CAN DO and not get punished for what he can't.  Your child is not doing this on purpose.  You need a formal behavioral plan at school which should be from a "functional behavioral analysis".  You don't want to rely on the individual teachers to come up with something like this bc most don't have the expertise.  Our school has a behavioral analyst that they normally work with and your school probably does too.

You should ask the school for an evaluation bc this is not a problem that's going to resolve on it's own.

Good luck![/quote]

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