Special pre-school/childcare for toddler w/ apraxia or not?

[Guest guest]

I posted a couple of weeks ago about my newly diagnosed (with verbal apraxia),

22 month old son and a question has come up that I'd love some feedback on.

If your toddler has apraxia, are you sending them to special pre-school or

daycare? If so, what kind?

I'm pregnant with baby #2 in January so now is the time to line up childcare

and/or pre-schools for both my son and the new baby b/c of long waiting lists in

our area.

Ethan is currently in a regular daycare that is like a pre-school (a Goddard

School serving infants thru pre-k) and I can enroll the baby at 3 mos there

also. We really like the place although it's a bit of a drive from our house (we

didn't like anything close by).

Ethan is doing well there, but lately he has been biting other kids due to

frustrations around his inability to speak. We're holding him back with the

younger kids a bit longer so he won't be more frustrated, but I'm trying to

figure out if we should be looking into a special kind of childcare or

pre-school for next year?

He goes to school/daycare 2x a week and we've just started 1x a in private

speech therapy with Lori Roth who specializes in apraxia, plus we're doing 2x a

week speech through Early Intervention with a therapist who has some apraxia

experience. So far, we've not seen any other issues than the apraxia and he's

super advanced with gross motor skills and seems strong with fine motor too, so

no other issues beyond speech. While I wonder whether normal childcare or a

pre-school will be frustrating due to his speech limitations, I wonder how he

would do in a special ed school with kids who have more physical limitations

(since Ethan is incredibly advanced with gross motor)...

I'd love to hear what other parents did or would recommend... And if you did a

special pre-school was it a special speech school or a special needs school?

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

see if you can find anything in your area that is preschool and has

language/apraxia help--call private schools that are geared towards autism for

advice

Colleen