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The Preschool teacher persuaded us to re-shirt my son who had a global developmental delay with ADHD.
He was SO BORED in first grade. The public school principal had told us there would be no way she would put him back in with his peers.
But given his academic level, and the fact that his grade was overcrowded, he did make it back to his peer group and immediately felt a little better. Now he's in a gifted program in middle school and feels MUCH better :-)

So be prepared to persuade the school administration with test results and things like that.[/quote]

[b]I am curious about your child's global developmental delay, and wonder whether you are using the term the same way I would.
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What cognitive skills were delayed in your child when they were approaching Kindergarten age, that resolved later on?[/quote]

I am using it the way he was diagnosed as toddler. He went through tons of therapy and as a Kindergartner had significant speech and motor delays, symptoms of severe ADHD and below-average results on the Stanford Binet (I hope I recall the name correctly). Those were the "objective" reasons for red-shirting. I knew he was also intellectually curious and had marked interests beyond his years, but those never translated on tests! It turns out he is twice exceptional, gifted and learning disabled, but we did not understand this until much later.

My point is that some children do not have the linear development that school is set up for. OP's child could very well thrive again if she is placed within her peer group - I think what matters beyond tests and evaluations is [u]OP's gut feeling[/u]. Just as my gut feeling ended up being justified.

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