There are many helpful comments, but I think many of us are working without critical information. For example, what class(s) your daughter receiving As and Bs? But, because of incomplete homework, her final grade drops to D. It seems to me that homework has a disproportionate impact on the grade. If so. could the teacher reduce the amount of course credit?
The psychiatrist says reduce homework, but I don’t know how much or which particular kind of homework to eliminate. I think your daughter has an important role in this discussion. The teacher may say no reduction or the kid say I really enjoy x and find it helpful and other things useless. I think you could say the psychiatrist recommends reduced homework, but kiddo and I talked about this and think the best option is…What do you think?
Now, I think homework should be useful in reinforcing skills and knowledge introduced in class. Somewhere there must be a line at which good homework becomes meaningless/busywork. Perhaps that is personal. What parts or kinds of homework does she find useful versus what is onerous? I would add stupid homework to the dump pile and or see if the part of the grade based on homework could be reduced.
Perhaps she finds reading the textbook quite helpful but it takes too long and her mind wanders. Would it help her to have electronic or recorded text such as RFBD and, if so, where would she get it? Could she and a friend or someone else read the text aloud to each other?
There are old options such as Cliff Notes or the newer electron version in which you can find parallel text for the actual reading and options modernized reading in local libraries. If she were my child we would visit the local library to learn options in obtaining text and using text assistance. We might even read to each other. There are lots of movies available to provide another means of accessing text. However, some are just shared titles such as Scarlet Letter with Daniel J Lewis.
Amazon Prime video has lots of great stuff. I think it has some good stuff in the sciences; for example, the Handbook of Poisons is interesting and more meaningful than standard chemistry fare. If math is an issue, I would investigate and maybe purchase the math books by Danica McKeller. They would also be nice ways to review math for college-admissions tests. Plan on using them to review math for fun at least. I am going over them to spruce up my math skills.
If there are aspects of her homework assignments that don’t work for her. then I would add those to the reduction list or I would ask for alternative means of demonstrating competency. She should have a big part in discussing what is and and isn’t doable.
Perhaps your daughter would find it better to reduce one or two classes instead. I would choose an elective that could be done at another time such as music, art, typing…whatever. She then might starting on homework during study hall.
Simply trying to or actually obtaining the psychiatrist’s recommendation needs to far more focused. For example, a teacher might volunteer to reduce homework by agreeing to do x in y class. You might find that you are agreeing to reduced homework, but not in achieve the purpose of reduced homework per the psychiatrist and real input.
You, your daughter, the teacher and the psychiatrist must agree what class content and homework, how much reduction, altered grading standard, fairness to daughter and peers, duration, and will the.reduction positively help your daughter learn apace with peers. Seems like you all need to have a prior discussion to lay out a reasonable, fair, and doable plan that all can buy into before launching.