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[quote=Anonymous]Hmmm. Definitely get an advocate. It sounds like you can show educational impact. You have a current IEP, which is great! Do you have recent test results to share, etc? I'm sure a consultant will steer you in the right direction on all you will need to bring to the table.

Like the PP from earlier said, K is pretty demanding. The kids have to sit and attend to instruction for a good amount of the day. Lunch is about 20-30 minutes and then recess for 30 minutes. For my HFA kid, the lunch/recess block was very stressful on top of the academic focus/attention issues. The biggest struggle I had (and I'm the poster who pulled kid out of MCPS), was to get them to understand how stressed my child was at lunch and recess with no support.

My child would wander around alone and crying at recess (bad days). Good days he would try to play with others but not quite the right way and ended up playing alone. And I know this because I volunteered there and saw it happening. I was devastated and even more so bc they refused to provide lunch and recess support! And the school is only required to have 2 aides per 60 kids on the playground!

And, if your child becomes so dis-regulated that she will laugh and roll around in class, she will have a tough time of K. Some teachers can be very punitive and take away their free-play time at the end of the day so the child makes up the work they were too dis-regulated to do during instruction time. Yes, this happened to us too. :/

I have been where you are. This transition from pre-k to K is really rough for special needs kids (and all kids, really).

Hugs to you.

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