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Inattention problems Help Please!!

Bird

Hello,

Could someone in the Comunity have any ideas or suffer for inattention please.  My son is 15 years, he was diagnosed with Autism. He attends a main stream school in Cheshire. He suffers with  inattention problems. He visited the Cahms - Mental Health service and was seeing by a psicologist. This lady suggested a few things, like makin a timetable, use an alarm to remind him the time, etc. But nothing is helping at the moment. His inattention is affecting our daily lifes more and more to the extends that sometimes goes to bed very late like 01:00 in the morning. Because takes too long to do things like get ready his bag for school - can take 30 minutes or more, can take 30 minutes to brush his teeth. To do homework he could take hours and this will make him go to bed very late. Please let me know if you could give some advice. Also because of this issue, he tend to feel depress and he's feeling very lonely. He feels very few people is suffering and feeling the way he feels now.

Many thanks in advance.

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  • With the homework I might be tempted to find out from the school how long they expect him to be spending on it and actually limit it to that rather than insisting he finishes it.  E.g. 30 minutes of maths, set a timer and supervise him to do 30 minutes (ensuring he didn't have access to other things like tv, facebook etc.) then send it in with a note in his planner (or exercise book or whatever they use) stating that that is what he achieved in the allotted time.  Spending hours grinding away on work that was supposed to be a short exercise isn't likely to be very productive for anyone long term and at the least it might prompt some discussion with the school about strategies you could all use to help him work more effectively.

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  • With the homework I might be tempted to find out from the school how long they expect him to be spending on it and actually limit it to that rather than insisting he finishes it.  E.g. 30 minutes of maths, set a timer and supervise him to do 30 minutes (ensuring he didn't have access to other things like tv, facebook etc.) then send it in with a note in his planner (or exercise book or whatever they use) stating that that is what he achieved in the allotted time.  Spending hours grinding away on work that was supposed to be a short exercise isn't likely to be very productive for anyone long term and at the least it might prompt some discussion with the school about strategies you could all use to help him work more effectively.

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