While there have been intervals during which my DD has appeared to put it behind her, I have finally accepted the reality that these intervals are the exception opposed to the rule.

It is BAAAD - yesterday she took 2 hours to complete a simple 30 question survey (in English) and draw a picture - yep, B&M 7th grade Spanish certainly doesn't come out of the corner swinging at the opening bell LOL

I wonder whether she has an attention deficit because she seems so distractible when she has to do homework.

Is it natural curiosity and imagination causing an explosion of other questions in her mind (I still suffer from this at times) or has she been conditioned by now to zone out in order to preserve her sanity during stultifying boring lessons so to the point now where it is a reflex (I have this during some work 'meetings' myself sometimes myself waiting for slower people to connect the dots).

Are there CBT based therapies for this? I am getting worried. I had thought that piling on my work to force her to compress/focus her attention might solve this and sometimes it has appeared to do this but overall this approach has been a failure.

How have others helped their children to manage this?

You might take a look at HOPS, a research-based intervention for homework, organization, and other school-related EF skills:

school version: https://www.nasponline.org/books-and-products/products/books/titles/hops-interventions-for-schools

home version: https://www.nasponline.org/books-and-products/products/books/titles/hops-for-parents

Are you dealing with a lot of what's listed here? - http://www.centerforthegifted.org/cntpub_under.htm

If so, you might want to try counseling and either scaling back or bumping up the work. Your DD could be totally bored from the homework or find it completely tedious and irrelevant. She might not see the point of doing the homework and not motivated to do it.

IF this is the case, I feel your pain!