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[quote=Anonymous]I have a five year old with Autism finishing up kindergarten.  He's very capable academically, but basically spends all day at school dysregulated. Both we and the personnel at his school have been focused on his behaviors, which unfortunately are disruptive, but lately I've also realized he isn't regulated enough to learn academics at school.  It hasn't been a big deal in kindergarten because he's grasped most of the academics intuitively, but I think it will become more of a problem as the academic material gets harder.  For various reasons we can't homeschool, but I'm wondering if we should just plan on teaching him the academic content at home and hope that at school he can work on social-emotional skills.  He is pretty burnt out after school and aftercare, so I've been toying around with the idea of buying first grade math and writing workbooks and working with him on that over the summer.  On one hand I don't want to make him bored in first grade, but based on how kindergarten is going I think next year is going to be a disaster no matter what, and at least he'd be less likely to fall behind academically. He also loves learning and I'd like to keep that spark alive.

BTW, he gets some supports at school and is getting an IEP to formalize those supports, but based on where things are presently I don't foresee things improving in the near term.

Are there any parents who have been or are in a similar situation out there?  I'm curious what you decided to do.

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