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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child did both PEP (2 half-days) and private pre-school the rest of the time.

My child's behavior was much better in the PEP classroom. The class had more structure and the teachers were better versed in handling children with special needs.

"Regular" pre-school was very caring and worked with me as much as they could. But they were also a bit exasperated with a child who had social communication issues: trouble with transitions/lining up, trouble sitting at circle time, delay with handwriting, etc.

PEP had built-in strategies for handling each of these issues. So, his issues were basically non-existent in PEP.

Do yourself a favor and pursue help through ChildFind. If you qualify for services, they are invaluable.[/quote]

This is very close to our situation.  We did both.  Our son was much better behaved in his afternoon county child find preschool.  In fact, he was the best behaved in the class, which give him a lot of confidence and boosted his self-esteem.  The private preschool was fantastic and helped us get into Child Find, but they just didn't have the specialized training to work with kids like mine.  We ended up doing a reward system that was pretty immediate - if he could keep it together for one hour, he got to go do something he wanted to do (dot markers or whatever), then the same for the second and third hours.  We found that he was NEVER getting his third hour reward, so we just cut back his hours and only sent him for 2 hours to the private preschool.  In the county preschool, they would give him very frequent choices instead -- like, "we're going to be in circle time and do some fun things.  Do you want to join us or do dot markers by yourself?"  He'd normally join, so after 2-3 minutes, they'd ask again, "do you want to stay and do X fun thing in circle time or go do playdough by yourself?"  He ended up usually choosing to stay in the circle and so they made the time before the question longer and longer.  Those kinds of "tools" really helped to get him to a place where he had ZERO defiant behaviors in kindergarten or first grade.  (In the classroom, at least -- home is a totally different story!!!!)

So, I agree with a pp -- if you can qualify for Child Find and have that kind of specialized help as an option, seems like total upside to be able to continue with both private and public.  [/quote]

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