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[quote=Anonymous]You are correct the experience can vary from county to county but it can also vary within the same county. My experience is with Fairfax Co and it's probably just as applicable to Arlington.  We had evaluations through EI and through CF.  My experience is that with Child Find, they're looking only for things that will imapct the child's ability to be successful academically.  They take an "educational" approach, not a medical/developmental approach. It sounds like your DD is not in kindergarten yet and in order to qualify to attend the special ed preschool, she would have to score fairly low on the evaluations.  Depending on who does the evaluation and (as you noted) how comfortable your DD feels, the assessment may or may not give a good picture of her strengths and challenges.  My advice would be to have them do an evaluation but get your own done privately, if at all possible.

My youngest goes to a special ed preschool in Fairfax County.  We use an in home provider and the bus picks him up/drops off from there.  We still have the pay full time rates because the provider doesn't do part time but since we don't have to pay anything for the preschool or bus pick up, we pay it.  It's also nice because in FFX, school is only a half day on Monday and when school is closed for teacher work days/holidays, we can just leave our DS in daycare without a hassle.[/quote]

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