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OP - I would go with what you are planning to do with a half-day kindergarten because you will give your DD the opportunity which will never come around again to continue to work in a focused way on "her speech" skills and with a practitioner that she has a relationship with.  Also going only half a day, she will not be exhausted to go to say late afternoon session.  Also another year of a smaller school setting hopefully will encourage her speech and social interactions with typical age peers.  There is no particular reason to start kindergarten and if you can afford the private K and continued speech services, from your older daughter you know you are giving her the benefit of another year of specialized services suited to her needs.

Also we have seen with granddaughters in both MOCO in a diverse elementary school setting with only about 16 students in classes K-2so far and in North Arlington with a class of 20+ that you have to be ready for the "push down" academics of today.    The one K now is in the top reading group and will be pushed beyond the kindergarten standards which is fine.  But again if your daughter is already reading, there is the question of trying to help her be able to demonstrate verbally the skills she has so that she will comfortable in a group setting.  Another consideration is that now so much of therapies including speech is "push in" and not pull out, so that given your daughter's particular language needs, it does not seem that she would benefit from such a setting.

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