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[quote=Anonymous]Short answer: Be vigilant and follow up with your ped! Mine has serious underlying issues.

Long answer:

DS was a 32 week preemie.
Officially diagnosed with global developmental delays at 9 months, but he was delayed since birth.
Started treatment with MoCo Infants and Toddlers at 14 months: speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, "play therapy".
Just before three, went to a social-skills preschool readiness group organized by Infants and Toddlers. Booted out of Infants and Toddlers at 3, even though they acknowledged that he was not caught up (just not delayed enough to qualify for Child Find).
At 3, started Montessori preschool, where he had significant problems with expressing himself and following directions. Diagnosed with ADHD, inattentive, at 6. 
Started public elementary school where he repeated Kindergarten to accommodate his delays and was given an IEP by the school to get free speech therapy at school.

He's now 8. He skipped a grade to get back with his peers and is bored intellectually, but has difficulty with oral and written expression, plus he is excruciatingly slow and does not understand social rules. We suspect he actually has what used to be called Asperger's (high-functioning autism, even though autism was ruled out when he was a toddler). Will get him a full neurosych eval. as soon as we can afford it.[/quote]

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