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[quote=Anonymous]I put my special needs child in a typical preschool.  He had severe expressive delays until he was about 6.5 years old.  He also had cognitive issues and ADHD.  The cognitive issues made him appear a year or so younger than his age, so they weren't awful.  He did his entire pre-kindergarten education in a typical preschool.  We held him back a year in preschool 3, so it was four years instead of the typical 3.  Anyway, obviously it worked very well for us because we kept him there.  He made friends and still plays with those kids to this day.

During the summers I took him out on Friday afternoons for speech therapy.  During the school year, he got picked up by a school bus and driven to the local elementary school for therapy once a week along with the private therapy I did.  It worked out fine.  It was harder to have the speech therapy in the school, although we did it on occasion.  The problem is that there just wasn't space, not that anyone cared.  On the few times we did it, they had to use the director's office, so we had to make advance arrangements.

The thing I've noticed with preschool aged kids is that they're very accepting of everyone.  I never found that teachers got frustrated with my son, but I'm sure he was passed over from time to time because he was so hard to understand and he was very quiet in school as compared to home, which his teachers attributed to his speech difficulties.[/quote]

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