Hi Amy -
He was evaluated for ADHD and doesn't have it.
He's just always in his own head.
Instead of listening to kids read aloud, he's devising his own new method for doing math or wondering whether a scientist thought through a specific detail of a theory that was mentioned in the first five minutes of reading so that he zones out and doesn't listen to the rest of it.
And he's clumsy. He just learned to tie his shoes this past summer but still really struggles with it, buttoning shirts is a nightmare for him, and cutting his food at the table means the dog enjoys most of it after it falls on the floor.
He has accommodations that allow him to email assignments, and this has dramatically increased the amount of work that gets turned in, but he still loses worksheets and other assignments that couldn't be emailed.
