Kindergarten for dc w global delays in all areas?

[Anonymous]

My son has significant global developmental delays in all areas and so receives speech, pt and ot services. I am starting to look toward kindergarten. Can anyone recommend a private school setting or their public school? Any geographical area. Recommendations of educational consultants who work with kids with global delays also welcome. TIA.

[Anonymous]

Where do you live now? An acquaintance had a child with some serious delays in the Arlington public schools and she was really happy with their special education preschool program and I *think* their ds did an extra year in an integrated preschool program, then started K a year late. Sorry I don't have more details, it was party chit-chat but may be worth looking into. I think the preschool was some special needs kids and some Arlington county employee kids.

[Anonymous]

Diener, maddux, Oakwood, kings bury, mclean

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

My son has global
Delays due to a rare genetic disorder. He is going into kindergarten and qualified for a lot of speech, Ot , pt and special ed service hours. We are in Fairfax County. Does you child have a current Iep. what towns have you considered? How is your child doing from a cognitive standpoint? Innour situation, because of the needs of my son He needs to be in the public schools and privates are just not an option service hour wise. Good luck

[Anonymous]

My oldest has delays and ADHD and my youngest has more significant delays and apraxia of speech. Once we were able to get an IEP in place, we've been very happy with FCPS. I don't have experience with private schools but I think it would be difficult to get all the services we get (OT/PT) and the small class size that they have. In the special ed preschool, there were only 5-8 kids with one teacher and 1-2 aides. In K, 1st and 2nd, there were no more than 8 kids in the pull out class with one teacher and one aide. For music, gym, art, etc., they were with the general class.
We did use an education consultant - Dr. Ruth Heitin http://www.educationalconsultingva.com/ and feel we received very good value for her services. HTH.

[Anonymous]

My daughter has global delays and is in the augmentatative communication program in Mo Co for Kindergarten. Receives PT, OT and of course intensive speech.

[Anonymous]

It all depends on degree of delay and what the right class size is for your child and teaching style. I would look at all of these (some have been mentioned before)

Katherine Thomas, Maddux, Oakwood, Deiner, Lab School of Washington,Shire School, Auburn, kingsbury

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My oldest has delays and ADHD and my youngest has more significant delays and apraxia of speech. Once we were able to get an IEP in place, we've been very happy with FCPS. I don't have experience with private schools but I think it would be difficult to get all the services we get (OT/PT) and the small class size that they have. In the special ed preschool, there were only 5-8 kids with one teacher and 1-2 aides. In K, 1st and 2nd, there were no more than 8 kids in the pull out class with one teacher and one aide. For music, gym, art, etc., they were with the general class.
We did use an education consultant - Dr. Ruth Heitin http://www.educationalconsultingva.com/ and feel we received very good value for her services. HTH.

Not OP, but do you mind sharing a little more information on the pullout class? Did your school have a special ed stand-alone class for each grade separate from the general ed class? Was it for various kinds SN kids or was it just for one kind of SN (e.g., autism)? thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Diener, maddux, Oakwood, kings bury, mclean

This is a real laundry list of special ed schools, and I'm not sure any of them are appropriate for a kid with global delays. I might look into Ivymount or Katherine Thomas, if you're in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not OP, but do you mind sharing a little more information on the pullout class? Did your school have a special ed stand-alone class for each grade separate from the general ed class? Was it for various kinds SN kids or was it just for one kind of SN (e.g., autism)? thanks

17:02 here. I can speak to my experience at our school but I don't know about others. I would think it's something similar. There isn't one special ed classroom per grade, there is a limited range of grades. In our school, you might have some kindergarteners with some first graders in one class and in another class there might be some first graders with second graders. Occasionally you'll have some second graders with the Ks but there have never been any third graders or older with the K/1/2 graders. It really depends on the instructional needs of the student. The pull out classrooms were for kids with various challenges, not just a certain type of SN. I'm not aware of any single disability/ASD only classrooms at my school except for some of the preschool classrooms. We've been very happy with the special ed/pull out classroom instruction.