My son was been diagnosed with ADD (not ADHD), High Functioning Autism, and a semantic pragmatic language processing disorder at the age of 7. He has been on Adderall XR, 40 mg, in the morning and clonodine at night to help him sleep. He is now 16 and in 10th grade. Over the summer, he has developed some tics, tapping his pencil on the paper several times while writing a paragraph. He is bothered by the tics, but cannot seem to stop them. His doctor indicates that this often happens in the teens of some ADD kids.
In school, he is in regular classrooms and he does well controlling his ADD and stimming (autism) behaviors. However, the tapping tic is bothering him. I have to be careful what medications to bring in as some of them make the autism issues come out more.
Thank you,
Andie