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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I would do is find a small, private kindergarten run by a church preschool program. The preschool where my DS goes has a full day K class and it has the benefit of a nice, small class size with lots of individual attention. Then you can decide for yourself if your DS is ready to go to public 1st or if he needs to repeat K in the public schools. My gut says with a year of small, private K, plus, hopefully, good speech therapy, that he’ll be able to go to public 1st and stay on grade level. A year is a long time at this age. Good luck OP![/quote]

This is a good idea- I had a late August birthday (female) so this is what my mom did. I went to private kindergarten in a little church preschool and then she ended up sending me to 1st because after that year they felt I was ready. But it gave her the option to decide to have me just start in K at the public school too. Anecdotally she’s always said she still wishes she’d just put me in K again in hindsight because she figures why not give me the extra year, but I was August and no special needs so I was totally fine and think she made a good decision. [/quote]

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