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My son is in the middle of testing. We won't find out the results until the end of January. Preschool registration starts soon. We have been told that he is borderline for a diagnosis so it is still up in the air whether he will receive any services. The psychologist believes that we should send him to kindergarten so that he has more social interaction. The teacher is unsure what would be best, but has some hesitation about it. He clearly has weaknesses that will prevent him from… read more
I think that if you are going to hold the child back do it for academic reasons not social. Also if you are going to do it doing it before first grade is better because once the child gets into kindergarten he will get used to the other kids and if he already has social problems he will loose any connections with the other children in that class and it may confuse him that he is not with them anymore.
We considered this with our son but he then asked why he would be in a class without his classmates he was used to, so we decided not to hold him back. Even though he did not interact with them a lot he was still used to them being there and it made him comfortable.
@A MyAutismTeam Member IDEA LRE section 612(a)(5) - children 3-5 (meaning 5 on the first day of school, children are allowed to turn 6 during the school year)- placement decision of a preschool child with a disability served under Part B of IDEA must be individually determined based on the child's abilities and needs as described in the child's IEP.
I worked for a school system that told me all children must stay in preschool until they turned 6 regardless of ability. When I questioned that they told me the school received $500 extra for each preschool child so I wasn't to question the schools decision. I left that school system because I thought it wasn't fair to base it on the money and that went against the federal law that stated it was to be based on ability and needs. That same year I was teaching several students that could read and write and were in desperate need of a Kindergarten environment that I couldn't give them because a majority of my class was lower functioning children.
She will be almost 6 next fall (January birthday) so I was told she had to be enrolled in kindergarten. Do you happen to know the relevant section of Federal law stating I can have her do another year of preschool?
@A MyAutismTeam Member Federal Law states that all children can stay in preschool until the age of 6. Public schools are even given a bigger stipend from the govt. if they keep 5 year olds in the preschool program vs. putting them into Kindergarten.
If your child qualifies for an IEP, the school district may not allow you to choose a pre-k classroom over a K one. I'd actually rather my DD get placed into a mainstream pre-K class next year than an autism K class (she is not ready for a mainstream K class) but that's not an option. Because she will be 5 prior to September 1st, she has to be in a K class next year rather than pre-K. Her functional age is about 1.5 years younger than her chronological age and she actually does okay in group settings with NT 3 y.o.'s. We don't have the budget to pull her out of public school and send her to a private pre-k (5 day 8-2 programs are $10k+ in my neck of the woods) even if we could find a program willing to take her.
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