How likely is it a six-year-old with a developmental delay to catch up?

[Anonymous]

I clicked on this not realizing it was an old post, but it caught my eye because I have a new Kindergartener and am wondering the same! In our state, young child with developmental delay expires at the end of K. He does not have autism or any social/emotional/behavioral delay.

As to our experience with service minutes, my guy (a young 5) seems less delayed at the start of K than the student described in the OP (he can reliably do the goals mentioned, except for identifying the letters in his name - he can do that with about 50% accuracy). He gets 20 minutes of daily small group pull outs for reading/writing/OT. He gets 10 minutes of daily 1:1 pull outs for reading/wring. He gets 20 minutes of 1:1 speech pull outs MWF. He got PT in preschool but now just gets adaptive PE.

[Anonymous]

My development delay/speech delay kid joins K this fall. I think she has accomplished 50% of her IEP K academic goals ( the goals were setup from January 2024) on counting 1 to 30 & some phonics. She gets 20 min daily push in for math (not sure 1:1 or small group) & 20 min daily push in for literacy (not sure 1:1 or small group)from homeroom teacher & maybe 20 min/week in total pull out for group speech. She mixes up all prounouns, tenses, positional words and does not have enough volcabularies to express complicated thoughts.She daydreams and needs to draw attention. She seems to be happy at K but she does not remember any new kids name or what teachers teach. She misses her preschool friends a lot.

The school just starts, so no IEP service has been in place yet. She has adhd and provisional autism diagnosis outside of school, but IEP put developmental delay on IEP report. We are in Maryland.