ADHD

[admoshier]

Hello I a writing for help! My 10 year old son has ADHD and the medication that he has been taking has caused him to have medicated tourettes syndrome, so I have had to stop this medication(pyschostimulant). Now he is having all kinds of problems at school and I cannot get them to work with me. I am needing any suggestions that maybe you have used to help your children deal with a problem like this. Our school does not have any programs for children with ADHD and they are just treating him like he is a bad kid . His teacher keeps telling him that he is irrisponsible and she tells him that he just doesn't care. I feel like the school is failing not only Andrew, but myself. They are beating him down and he already has enough to deal with. Any suggestions would be greatly apprecitated! Thanks!

[UroDoc]

most if not all federally funded school programs have a special needs assessment and program, I would call the school department and a social worker, good luck

[estefania]

your child needs support not punishment. the school/teachers are missing the boat. get your child out of that school today. don't take him back there ever. there are many options public, charter, private, etc., for caring parents looking for quality education. shop around.

[auburnmomof3]

What do you mean your school doesnt have a policy that deals with ADHD? That doesnt make sense to me. Have you tried second opinion dr? other schools? Superintendent of schools? YOu dont need a school or teacher emotional hurting the child anymore. I know from personal experience, my child takes ADHD meds and she takes them daily at school without a problem. They have a school nurse there to administer them to her. Good luck to you.

[htoomim]

The school is not doing your son good. I believe you are quite correct. The idea of criticising a child who is doing his best is irresponsible. I believe your quest for a better way to correct your son's difficulty is to analyse its cause and take appropriate action.

If you have to repeat simple instructions many times before he successfully completes them, I suspect he can't remember them for long enough to more than begin. In this case he may begin to do what you want and then forget what he is doing before he is finished. If working memory is the problem then he will have trouble learning to read. He wont be able to remember what the beginning of a paragraph said by the time he reaches its end. Brain exercise at the inside area just covered by a forehead above the eyebrow over his left eye will strengthen his working memory.

You probably want to avoid medicines. The history of these have recently been black box flagged by the FDA as causing children's development problems. Although they have a reputation of improving behavior they have never been subjected to the double blind studies nor for the time to understand long term effects required by the FDA for adult medicines.

Your son's hyperactivity, the HD part of ADHD, presents another problem. In this case the basal ganglia, responsible for quieting the hyperactivity and allowing him to focus on what he intends to do, is failing in its control of the thalamus. Here again, as in almost all brain difficulties, exercise of the proper brain module leads to improvement. In this case the treatment is the same but the brain area is different. Here the placement of the Hemoencephalographic probe is the middle of the forehead at the hairline. Very little has been published on this relatively new technique, You should find Google helpful in looking for references.