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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love some feedback on Little Buds, the new ABA preschool through Little Leaves in Silver Spring. (Their waitlist is 5 months long). We have seen two developmental pediatricians this week (our regular one and another well known expert) who believe 2.5 year old son meets the criteria for HFA. We have our official ADOS eval at KKI in May. He had a terrible time in a mainstream preschool this year (tantrums, hitting other kids, crying spells that wouldn’t stop) so we withdrew him after several months. He’s in private OT and Speech now but it’s getting clear that he won’t be able to handle being in an inclusive preschool like St. Colomba’s and needs a more therapeutic setting to help him manage his anxiety around other kids and the sensory challenges of being in a classroom. Both developmental pediatricians recommended a combo of PEP Classic and ABA or the Little Buds preschool. He will be three in October so Maddux and Katherine Thomas are not on the table for this fall. My son has pragmatic speech delays and echolalia plus sensory processing issues and anxiety. He’s the sweetest little guy but gets so stressed around other kids and shows very little interest in them but lots of enagagemet with adults. My older son who is 4 just got his official HFA diagnosis from KKI last month but he is well established at Maddux and is in private therapies. I am feeling overwhelmed right now and would love feedback on Little Buds or PEP Classic or any other suggestions you might have. I am a bit concerned that his language development wouldn’t move forward in these settings but the docs feel that it’s more important to get him in the class with other kids in a supported way which I agree with. thanks.[/quote]

OP- what did you decide to do? And may I ask, do you feel that a more specific private program is a better fit for HFA than PEP was?[/quote]

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