Last year the folks at school kept telling us they weren't seeing anything out of the ordinary with DD. In an IEP meeting late in the school year we were asked once again to describe what we were referring to and I demonstrated DD zoning out. 2 days later there was an incident where a teacher (not her regular classroom teacher) scolded DD for "not paying attention" and "looking away". DD got very upset because she had no idea what she was doing wrong - as far as she knew she was "just doing my work.". They were unable to calm her down and removed her from the classroom. Wouldn't you know the speech pathologist trying to calm her saw *exactly* what I had demonstrated just a couple of days earlier. I mean *exactly*. It was the only time anyone in the school reported seeing this. Afterwards the spec ed teacher and SW asked me to demonstrate for them again. They both indicated that this was very different from a previous student with absence seizures and they realized they had been looking for the wrong thing. The spec ed teacher thought it was likely that she had in fact seen this behavior from DD before but did not understand what she was looking for. This is an excellent, experienced spec ed teacher with almost 40 years of teaching experience.

As the saying goes when you believe it you'll see it...