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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh geez everyone.  Does anyone have actual advice for the OP's question?

OP, I'm inferring that at the moment, your daughter has been deemed eligible for the IEP for K, and eligibility is not in question, is that correct?

And as you've described it, the issues that may interfere with her learning are her social skills - her ability to work with other children, communicate with the teacher, and demonstrate her knowledge?

So the issue is what kind of accommodations your daughter needs to help her in this.

Since you've mentioned that ASD is on the table, I think the best approach is to ask for accommodations that are designed to assist kids with ASD in their social skills needed for learning in K.  Off the top of my head, I'd say:

- pull-outs 1x/week for express social skills instruction with the social worker; plus "lunch bunch" meetings to work on social skills
- push-in hours with the special ed teacher during classroom times when more interaction is expected (e.g., if they have reading groups where they are supposed to read in teams; or other times where they are expected to interact and you don't think she'll be able to)
- training for the gen ed teacher on how to interact with her to get her verbal participation in class
- accommodations in the class that help her relieve her anxiety (quiet spot? sitting in front? not sure here.)

Since K is so very different from preschool these days, you'll also have to be prepared to monitor how she's doing, and convene a meeting with the IEP team if things don't work.  [/quote]

That's not the style here.  My advice is to get a full evaluation, including speech but those don't sound fully like left over speech issues and spend the money until K. and get private services - speech or therapy.  Once you hit low average in an area, you loose speech at school in that area but it doesn't mean child is fully where they should be.

Aren't there NIH studies someone has talked about on here that were helpful to them? I know I looked and could not find much speech related but I know they exist.[/quote]

UMD had a shyness study. Not sure if it's still ongoing.

This sounds very much like my DS at this age (not with the language delay though) but I wish I had gotten better advice about aggressively treating the anxiety. My DS had selective mutism and severe social anxiety and everyone told us, for years, that he would just grow out of it. He did not just grow out of it and by the time we found more effective treatment providers, he was a resistant older child. If we had started when he was the age your child is, we would have gotten much farther.[/quote]

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