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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, my 3 almost 4 year old just finished her first semester at UMD LEAP program. She did the summer session. Last year she was in the Montgomery County PEP program. I like both programs as PEP really helped with her academic skills and LEAP did a great job with speech therapy. As you all know, PEP is 5 days a week, half a day program. DD was in daycare in Gaithersburg for half day and the school bus brought her to PEP for the afternoon. LEAP however, is only 3 days a week, half a day. Working moms....how did you work this out during the school year? I would love for DD to go to both LEAP and PEP during the Fall.[/quote]

My DS is almost 3 year old, speech delay, and he is in full day daycare in Gaithersburg. When he turns 3, I am told that the school bus can take him to PEP program in the mornings 5 days a week. I hesitate to make the final decision because he will completely miss the daycare preschool programs (9-noon) 5 days a week. He loves the daycare preschool program because he can play with art/music, go to playground, and learn letters/colors/shape with other kids. Pretty much other than 9-noon daily, other time are just nanny care time, not educational at all. I hear that PEP program also offers in the afternoon  5 days a week, did your DD dropped the afternoon nap last year at 3 years old? Was that a tough adjustment for dropping the nap?

I am interested in UMD LEAP program, hear a lot of good things about it for their speech program. But, we are both working parents, no nanny, and there's no way for us to take him to LEAP program.  [/quote]

Your other option is to keep him at his day care if they are great and do 2-3 times a week private speech therapy.  Most of us who did Leap (and some PEP or another day care) also did private speech as LEAP goes by the college calendar so there are huge gaps.  Its a great experience but you have to have a nanny, relative or some kind of plan.    A good day care and private speech can be equally good.[/quote]

How do you do the private speech therapy 2-3 times a week? We both working full time, so does that mean either send the private speech therapist to the daycare directly (without us being present) OR someone has to adjust the work hours to take the kid to private speech therapist? I have called a couple private speech therapists before, and they don't offer evening or weekend hours. [/quote]

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