You may also want to keep in mind that she may be high in the psychomotor OE. When DS was in 2nd grade, his teacher of three days told me I needed to take him to see a nueropsychologist and have him medicated. I was shocked. I did a lot of research online, and that's when I began attending the annual NAGC and SENG conferences.

In conferring with others at the conferences I learned about Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration and the OEs (overexcitabilties), sometimes referred to as Super Sensitivities or Stimulatabilities, but also can be thought of as a high intensity factor.

It is not uncommon for psychologists to misdiagnose a child with the psychomotor OE as ADHD. I've found three places you can go to begin looking into this if you'd like:

http://www.sengifted.org/articles_social/Lind_OverexcitabilityAndTheGifted.shtml

http://giftedkids.about.com/od/gifted101/a/overexcite.htm

http://www.stephanietolan.com/dabrowskis.htm

Hope this information is insightful if not helpful.

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