The Attention Center

Today we visited our favorite person Dr. Jones @ the Attention Center.

Every visit we re-fill out forms, he keeps everything on file and we have had to look back through a couple of times.  ~ During this visit I told him about taking Mr. E off of his medication towards the end of the school year to see how well he would do. I don't think I posted about that (but wanted to). ~  So briefly: We decided to see how Mr. E would do not taking his medication, not as a permanent thing but just to see where he is as of now. Dr. Jones doesn't advise taking kids off their medications for the summer because often times with ADD/ADHD comes behavior issues. Typically Mr. E tends to have highs and lows through out the day. He can snap pretty fast, so the medication evens out his mood. ~ Off the medication we were pretty excited about how Mr. E was doing emotionally. He had a lot more energy and seemed more outgoing than he is on the medication, he seemed to be more on a high than not (maybe more ADHD). We wondered if part of his constantly happy mood was the fact that school was going to end soon......  ~ I told Mr. E's teacher what we did after about a week and a half of no medication and she seemed a little bothered that we didn't let her know before hand but I really wanted to see what she saw without her knowing what to watch for. She said his focus was completely gone, so I can understand why she was frustrated. We also noticed his lack of attention. He's not always a fast mover so getting him to do something can take 2-3 times of asking while on the medication so Mr. E off the medication was more like 10-12 times asking and getting upset with him before he would do what we asked.  ~  When we added in Interactive metronome, he started to even out more. it was so interesting to watch. I told Dr. Jones about Interactive Metronome and the results we were seeing. He was not familiar with it so he asked a number of questions and wanted to know the results when we finished. He thought it sounded great!

 

Dr. Jones has DS's for the kids to play with. No wonder Mr. E loves going there. ~ It's great because while I go in to talk with Dr. Jones, the kids are entertained. After I talk to Dr. Jones then he has Mr. E come in, he's so sweet and encouraging with Mr. E. ~  Sadly Dr. Jones is quite a bit older so I'm worried he'll retire before we don't need him anymore.