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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you do any of the following?

1) Have him do 30 minutes of real exercise before school every day and more after school? Does he have breakfast with a decent amount of protein? 
2) Does your school have an individual trampoline in a special ed room where kids can go to jump for ten minutes if they need to let off some energy? This is what my ES school had and it was written into some children's IEP that it be available. 
3) Does he have any fidgets? 
4) Does he have an exercise ball for a chair? or can he stand at a desk instead of sit? 
5) Have you tried relaxation yoga or meditation? 
6) Does your school have a labyrinth to walk at recess? 
7) Does he have a positive behavior chart on his desk? Written into his IEP? 
8) Does he get frequent breaks? 
9) Can he take tests in a smaller classroom with fewer children? 
10) Does he see a psychologist or LCSW that is experienced with ADHD? 
11) Has he every been to a social skills group? 
12) Does he get positive reinforcement at home? 
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I am a new poster, but with a younger child with ADHD and 'class clown' disruptive impulsive behavior. I just wanted to thank you for this, because we are trying to figure out what to do at this point. We are new to this, and DS is too young to medicate (as per us and our dev. ped), but we do want to learn what else we can do. He doesn't have an IEP (we thought we would wait until the new year) but there are other great suggestions. He gets frequent braks and movement breaks, and his class doesn't have desks that they need to sit at much. We got fidgets and are shopping around for a psychologist (thanks to posts on this board) and are working on positive reinforcement at home, but I don't know what's goign on at school.

isn't a trampoline a head injury risk? DS would love it, but this has stopped us, especialy as he is not that coordinated (some dyspraxia in fact). 
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