Re: Stacey - about preschool

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I too was worried about putting my son with more severe children in

the specialized pre-school. One, the kids are grouped by needs and 2

I have found that the program is structured in such a way that

negative behaviours are handled immediately. Last year he was in a

program in a regular school and he did his own thing also. The ratio

of teacher to child is better which gives the children more

individualized attention.

My son 3 1/2 has had a great experience with the program. He loves it

and his talking in combination with therapies and Pro-efa has really

taken off.

My advice (if you want it LOL) is to check out the program in your

district. You may be pleasantly surprised!

Good luck.

--- In @y..., " Stacey " <staceydaniel@m...>

wrote:

> Hello-

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> Certainly you are not being forward to mention the PDD. The

professionals we have seen already are dancing all over it already

and I have pretty much come to the conclusion myself and am ready to

take the dx when it comes this month. We have pretty much already

dealt with it and are trying to take life day by day.

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> My son does take speech 3x a week and OT 2x week along with a music

therapy program which has been wonderful. We believe he is also on

the mild side but are still worried. His SLP is using the PECS

system with hime 2x a week and then we have another SLP 1x week who

does the play based therapy. I am currently looking for a special

instructor but the area we live in has about zero for resources.

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> Does your son attend any kind of special pre school? Mine goes to

a private preschool but it is not for special kids. I am thinking

about moving him to a special school but I am worried about the

negative effects that a pre school setting with more severe children

might have on him. He gets along okay in the school he's in now but

the teachers there do not make him participate in everything and do

whatever he wants. They really do not try to intrude upon his world

and I wonder which road I should take. I feel like he does not need

to be left to his own and should be made to come around and face the

human world. He usually does but it takes him a while to " warm up "

to other people. After a while, he usually has to have some quiet

time to deal with the overload.

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> Sorry for the book

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> Stacey

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