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[quote=Anonymous]I have a very different reaction to this than PPs. Our two kids, one HFA/ADHD and the other mostly typical but very small, have been in private SN schools since kindergarten. Almost all of their peers were held back early / "redshirted" before first grade. We did not think to do that. But socially, I really wish we had. Both of them are developmentally delayed and just more comfortable with younger kids. And that gap is getting wider, not narrower, as they approach middle school. We can't even think about holding them back a grade now because academically they are more or less a grade level ahead already. But if they were behind academically, I would do it joyfully. I wonder whether PPs who think that sounds so awful are projecting their own typically developing social experience a bit. I don't know your DD but most of the time that significant of an academic delay comes with a significant social delay too. That will get bigger. So slowing her down a bit could help on both fronts in the long run. And is moving an option?  That would solve the stigma issue PPs identify.[/quote]

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