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[quote=Anonymous]Long story short, our family is getting overwhelmed. 
We are aging out of NY Early Intervention (birth to 3) and now transitioning to CPSE.
Our soon to be 3 year old child receives 1hr speech, 1hr OT, 1hr PT, 1hr special instruction between home and his preschool and has been diagnosed with a DD, which affects language and motor skills (gross and fine).
Language skills are slowly increasing, but are still limited to labeling a few objects, no receptive language as of yet. No behavioral issues observed so far, apart from frustration when it comes to communication.

Our child is receiving the services via an IFSP, but we'll have our IEP meeting later in June. We've already done most of the evaluations.
From the evaluator's feedback, it's likely they'll recommend more intensive instruction in some kind of a classroom setting. We're still on the waitlist for an ASD evaluation per the Dr's recommendation; it may take a year to get it. 
Meanwhile we are supposed to get on all the waitlists for the private special education programs, some of which run upwards of 60-100k, which isn't even an option for us anyway.
Since NY metro doesn't have UPK, we have to wrangle with the school district to cover the costs at one of the more affordable programs, which may or may not be available, likely more waitlists followed by in-home services for however long it takes to get off of one.

We're leasing our home in August, and have the option to move to the DC metro to be closer to both our jobs, which are based there.
I'm unfamiliar with Early Stages and the DCPS in general for pre-k, but am I making a huge mistake? Our plan would be to rent for 1-2 years until we get a better idea for the area and then make a decision.[/quote]

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