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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He is 3 years old. and he does go to fairfax county pre-school for half day and then daycare/preschool for the remaining.  But just plays by him self.  [/quote]

Age 3 is hard -- it can be perfectly age appropriate not to have close friends and to do more parallel play. I'd focus on giving him the exposure to other kids (HFA or NT) and not push the cooperative play.[/quote]

Yes, our 3's room filled with NT children is just now (9 months into the school year, with all kids turning 4 years old starting last September) getting so they are truly playing cooperatively.  At the beginning 3 kids might be in the block area but they'd be building their own structures, or commenting on other kids' structures, gradually that turned into adding things to other kids' structures and now 3 kids will build one thing together, or work together to get the ramps to work for the cars to drop where they want.... it's a process.

But it's great that he's there, being with the other children, and it would be important for the teachers to scaffold this as the other kids in the group are ready - then they'll scaffold his abilities. [/quote]

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