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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP Here -- Thanks for all the helpful responses that actually addressed how to find a shadow.  Craigslist sounds like it will be a good start.  Has anyone had any luck with Care.com?
  
For what it's worth, we're not using the OT for diagnosis.  My son has already gone through the Child Find process and will receive some services in the fall, and we are currently going through a private evaluation to try to put a finer point on what is really going on.  Those processes take time, so I was looking for advice on how to deal with the aggression issues in the interim.  [b]It seems likely that keeping him a school environment with typically developing peers is going to be helpful for him in the long run, and I'm looking for a way to do that. [/b] [/quote]

Maybe. My kid with aggression issues stayed at preschool and the shadow made things much, much worse. He understood he was being treated differently, singled out, and had different rules than everyone else and he quickly started to use to shadow to take him out of the room, take him to the playground if he needed a break, etc. Having a shadow is the most restrictive environment. Your son is not developing typically RIGHT NOW, and yes, that could change, but I would push to get him into the preschool, the intergrated one. That would be a much less restrictive environment, When it gets to the point that there needs to be a shadow it is indeed bad enough that you need to change the environment. BTDT. [/quote]

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