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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I have struggled with the issue of whether to have my 3 year old, who has special needs, repeat preschool because of the same issues you've identified about whether he will feel sad not to be with his friends from this year and will suffer stigma either now or eventually for being older.

I read some of the research that I think the educator above is referring to that says grade retention is not a good idea. Here is a resource about this--it's special ed focused but the research is not necessarily about kids with special needs: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/retain.index.htm

In my case we did decide to have my son repeat preschool. Obviously he is younger so that factored in--3 year olds will have less understanding about "repeating" a grade than older kids. But, we did struggle with it and I hope that in 10 years I dont feel like we made a mistake.

I would agree with the previous posters who suggested having your son evaluated for learning disabilities. If there are any, it can help you identify strategies that will help him. If not (and it's certainly possible he's just a high-energy kid in a structured setting) no harm done other than some money spent.[/quote]

Hi there -- did you have your 3 year old evaluated for LDs already? we have not done so yet - have seen a dev ped and have a dev delay diagnosis - but I would like to know how you did this. I thought 3 was too young.[/quote]

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