What are you wanting to achieve with the IEP? Are you looking for instruction in areas your ds has a challenge in, instruction outside the scope of the classroom in areas of strengths (gifted/accelerated), or are you looking for accommodations that will help minimize the impact of his ADHD an enable him to fully access his curriculum at school?
I'd like to get him instruction in areas where he needs to be challenged (math) and help for him in areas in which he seems to be struggling (reading comprehension/remembrance). The teacher has given him math that's way beyond what they're doing in class, but he's still telling me he's bored and "done with it". I would love something to minimize the impact of his ADHD, but right now we're on medication, so that seems to be working well so far. Obviously I'd love to get him off of it and be able to function well in class w/o the meds.
Re the 0s and 1s on the ADHD questionnaire vs the notes on the report card - we've had a similar situation with our older dd. I think the thing to remember is - the report card gives you information that can be used to help your child be even more successful in the classroom than they already are, and many children are distracted in a classroom setting, it's not necessarily something atypical. The ADHD questionnaires are attempting to summarize atypical behavior - so distractibility noted as a concern there (from a teacher's perspective) would be distractibily beyond what the child's age-peers are distracted by in the classroom. FWIW, my dd is easily distracted and will admit it! Most of her friends appear to be easily distracted in the classroom too - but it doesn't look like the type of distraction you get with ADHD... but it does interfere with schoolwork and is something I am not surprised to see appear on a report card
See, it (being distracted) is affecting her school work and that's the concern. Especially her math. She gets distracted, frustrated and then gives up and ends up hating it. However, her test scores are fantastic, so I know she knows it, but doesn't do well in school or in homework because of the distractability. Just frustrating because I know she's amazing, but she doesn't think so.
