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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don’t you wait to decide. A lot can happen language-wise in a year, especially with speech therapy. Put a deposit down on your preschool whenever that happens and pre-register for kindergarten as well so you can do the spring walk through. You can decide as late as August what to do. No need to make this decision now.[/quote]

+1 This is anecdotal, but my son was by far the youngest in his PK class (birthday right before cutoff). He also had motor skill issues so we started OT in the Fall of PK, and his teacher supplemented those activities during class. We seriously discussed having him repeat PK with teacher, to the extent that we reregistered him for PK. However in March and April, everything started clicking and he was on fire. In May his teacher met with us and said, "If you want him to repeat that would be fine, but I think he's ready for K." So we went with K and everything worked out fine. He's in second now, doing great.

We really depended on input from his teacher and OT therapist in order to make the decision, but I agree with PP that a lot can change in a short time at that age, so you may want to wait and see. Good luck.[/quote]

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