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As others have already said it is very difficult to separate one "disorder" from another. They overlap to begin with and with our kiddo's background it is really just not worth driving yourself crazy over. In addition to meds there are some other things (besides the above mentioned school strategies) that we are doing to help dd with her symptoms. She has been doing theraputic horseback riding (hippotherapy) for the last two years. She has gained tons of confidence from this and it has helped her in many other ways as well. She just began taking a yoga class taught by a special ed teacher who is working with her and 2 other children with ADHD. A huge focus here is to teach them to be able to change "speeds" more easily (from silly/hyper/upset to calm/quiet/relaxed). Once their instructor gets to know the kids and the kids know each other she plans to add another aspect of teaching the kids to "read" a social situation before "entering" it. She has a term for that but it is failing me at the moment. At her first class yesterday dd did great and loved it....until she spent 25 minutes flipping out because she refused to put her socks on...oh well one step forward two steps back.
Despite this dd has made tremendous progress with many of her ADHD symptoms (without meds as the ones we have tried have not helped enough to outweigh the side effects...although she will likely try more when she is a bit older). Her ADHD is still pretty apparent relative to others but compared to herself in the past it is vastly improved.
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