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Can't you have a school nurse or other official give him the second dose at school (it would probably just require a doctor to fill out a form authorizing it).

 

My son was in pre-school special ed since age 3 and this is his first year at Kindergarden.  I would suggest asking for para-professionals to aid your son in his school year if you think he'll need it.  My son's special ed pre-school had a 1:1 ratio and then he went into another special ed program where the ratio was about 1:10.  Now he's in regular pre-school (ratio 1:25) but he has a paraprofessional assisting him whenever needed.


Is his pre-school special ed? Does he have an IEP or IFSP?  If so he  might qualify for some special services in Kinder

Well, it is not worth it....   He does not fall sleep until about 11:00pm, before that he was asleep by 8:30pm.   On top of that everyday is a hassle to get him to swallow the pill,  anyways, we stop.  Also he was taking Tenex and that also does not help him much with the sleeping and I never saw a change in him even after 4 weeks, so we stoped that one too.

 We are back to all good Metadate Cd.  the only thing is that lasts only about 5 hours, since he is at school during the time to take a second dose, we are just taking one a day.  It helps some.   During the summer I will defenetely do 2 times a day..We do it on the weekends, if not ,,,,, HE DRIVES EVERYONE CRAZY !!! ...    I am very afraid of what will happen in Kindergarten this fall, he has been in the School district special program since he was 3.  Very small student-teacher ratio 4 to 1.    Now...I think is like 16 or 20 kids per teacher in Kindergarten...and he does not do well with that many children.   Time will tell.

  I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for all the responses I always get from you guys.