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My son was diagnosed at 4 with PDD-NOS and ADHD. He is currently taking Adderall XR for the ADHD. He is doing well in school right now and has met all of the goals they had set for him at the end of last year. What they fail to realize is all of the hard work that I put in to help him to fit into the normal world. Although in my opinion our world is quite dysfunctional. I perform a certain routine to get him up and off to school and work with him at night on his homework. He is in first grade. He has definately come a long way from preschool until now and I am very proud of him. He has made a vast improvement socially as well as accedemically. He can now go into crowds without flipping out but is still a little apprehensive and insecure at times. My biggest concern is that he is so young and if I sign off on his IEP he will fall through the cracks. What happens a year or two from now and the school work gets more difficult and he becomes frustrated?I know that as he gets older kids will notice his different behaviours and that he can act kind of strange at times when confronted.(he growls at people) I am at a loss as to what to do. My gut instinct says to fight the retraction of his IEP and keep it in place should any behavioural issues arise. Help.
Tracy
Hi Tracy,
I think fighting the retraction of his IEP might be a good thing. It is important that he gets all the help he needs (even if he's doing well right now). When I was small there were no special programms where I lived and I got through mainstream school with my parent's help (they were both teachers so that was good), but school was also the hardest time in my life, esp. because I was bullied near constantly in class because of my naivite and odd behaviour and despite of an high IQ miserably failed a number of classes because I had just given up - I *had* fallen through the cracks you mentioned.
If that can be avoided, it is definately worth fighting for it.
Hope this helps,
C.
Hi Tracy,
just a short note to say I'll try to answer your question tomorrow.
C.
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I am an adult diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism and ADD.
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