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[quote=Anonymous]I am way past this point and no longer remember all of the acronyms, but here's our story.  My son went to preschool with services from MoCo, not PEP.  In Infants and Toddlers, he got every service known to mankind except PT, but the services once he hit age 3 dropped to only speech.  When it came time for kindergarten, the county wanted to place him in a non-mainstream special ed program full time.  I held him back for a year and supplemented MoCo services with private services.  He was reassessed the following year and was placed in a regular classroom with some pullout services.  It was tough for a couple of years and then in second grade, he really started to excel.  He even tested into the GT program, which we declined because the workload was too much - it was all I could do to keep him successful in a regular classroom at that point.  Anyway, he is now going into sixth grade in above grade level and honors classes.  He still has an IEP and accommodations, which I expect will continue through high school.  If I'm remembering correctly, he stopped with the supplemental services when he started kindergarten, but I could be a little off on that.

I think my story is a miracle, but I am sharing because when I was at the place where you are now, everyone so underestimated my son and I didn't know what to think.  The goal for my child was to be able to order a meal in a restaurant by the time he graduated from high school and he was expected to get a certificate of attendance and not a diploma.  I didn't know if they were right or wrong at that time but I remember feeling like people were making judgments without giving my son the time to develop.  It was all about pushing him because of his age instead of giving him the time he needed to develop.

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