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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why are you bashing pp who recommended potomac glen?

op said her child's main needs are social skills and there's a lot of research about the importance of good role models.

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OP is already in PEP, looking at Maddux, TLC, and Arc programs--she probably has already BTDT in mainstream preschool department.  "specialized" programs"--the potomac glen PP needs a swift kick in the pants.  I don't like swoop ins from Gen'l Parenting.  She's just trying to drum up an extra body for her school.  We all already know the importance of role models.  If only it were that easy.  The PP obviously has never felt your heart sink when you get that rejection letter for a place really could help your kid and not just a place to drop tuition money.  Role models are a dime a dozen in preschools and sometimes our kids are role models too.  
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There's a lot of truth to this, but there's also too much snippiness and painting with a broad brush.

It's not all one or all the other, and what a child can benefit from depends on how far along they are in developing their social skills.  Our DC, early on, needed a lot of therapeutic help because they didn't have the tools to make use of social cues and modeling.  But by the 3rd year of the SN route, the balance had clearly tipped -- the ability to learn from peers had been adequately developed, and classroom skills were being held back by atypical modeling.  Mainstreamed the next year and DC has done great learning socially from peers, studies them, thinks about them, asks questions on the way home from school about handling social situations.  We supplement with after hours teaching in social cognition.  There's no universally applicable formula here.    [/quote]

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