DS is 6 and I’ve long noticed that he has a bit of trouble staying focused and will zone out a lot. I’ll ask him to do something simple like put on his socks and will have to remind him several times before he actually does it. He is bright and working at expected levels for most thing and above average at a few things. His social skills are good, he plays well in groups or individually, but he is shy around adults he doesn’t know very well and doesn’t like to meet their eye, has no problem with adults he knows well. This was flagged up as a concern when he was in reception by one of his teachers but when I spoke to the other (more senior teacher) she was confident it was merely shyness. His lack of focus when tasked with something in class was flagged up as a minor concern at the parents evening last year. Fast forward to now, one of the TAs is covering his class for a few days, notorious for being grumpy and very abrupt. At the end of the class I took him back to hand his homework in as I’d asked him two days in a row to hand it in and he’d forgotten. Explained and made a jokey comment about him being forgetful and the TA basically rolled her eyes and implied he’s a nightmare in this regard and she said that it’s “very concerning” how he zones out and she’s even spoken to the SEN member of staff about it, I was a bit floored, and I’m now worried, I said I know he has a problem with concentration but I wasn’t sure what I could do about that, she just said “hopefully he grows out of it” now I’m sitting here worried it’s something seriously wrong? He can sit down and concentrate on the tv, he does struggle to follow instructions sometimes, like at football practice for example, I spoke to him about it today, gently, and he said he finds the work hard, I said is that because you don’t listen? And then he didn’t want to talk anymore. Just stuck now, only other thing to mention is that he is always chewing things, is this a flag for something?