Why is his teacher reluctant to do the scales? I hope she'll reconsider! Whether or not he ultimately is diagnosed with ADHD, her input into his current functioning at school is a valuable data point - I hope she'll reconsider!
It sounds like he is in a great school!
polarbear
ps - that's interesting about anxiety possibly causing deficits in working memory. My ds responds to stress with anxiety, and when he was first in school with undiagnosed challenges, he was so frustrated and stressed out he became anxious to the point of having panic attacks and was diagnosed with anxiety disorder during his neuropsych eval. He also had relatively low scores on working memory at that first eval. Once we had his diagnosis and accommodations in place, his severe anxiety disappeared almost overnight - it was (is) still there but under much less stress it's impact on his life is much less severe. He went through a second neurospcyh eval in 5th grade and at that time his working memory scores went way up - I wonder if the first set of scores that were low was related to anxiety. Interesting!
Last edited by polarbear; 05/02/12 10:36 AM.
