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[quote=Anonymous][b] ....but they flagged his very low muscle tone (core and hands) and motor planning challenges. He also has social anxiety and absolutely needs the same routine every morning for school drop off or else he melts down completely.  He currently sees an OT once a week who comes to his school, and that has been helping him a lot, especially in his self-perception of his own abilities, which used to be quite poor.[/b]

OP - Your son is turning 5 in December and would easily meet the criteria for a full evaluation by a developmental pediatrician including and educational and psychological evaluation.Your pediatrician may or may not that experienced and skilled in evaluating a child who may have very subtle social-behavorial needs.  Also, the backgrounds of those who work as generalists in EI programs and their personal experience in knowing young children can vary greatly.  And I would caution that an OT's knowledge base as well as a PT or Speech Therapist can be very deep in their specific area, but not when looking across the wide spectrum of the various domains and deficits.

In my opinion, it would make much more sense to get a broad-based picture all at the same time of your DC as normed against typical peers.  If you go through a comprehensive evaluation process, you would also be getting the input from more than one person - but rather a team -  as far as I remember, but rather a development pediatrician, a psychologist, an educational evaluater, and specific therapeutic areas chosen for testing which sounds like PT and OT.  The aspect of anxiety and diagnosis of how this might play into things is also important to get documented as early as possible.   This information from a team approach could then be factored into what "you know" about your son and what others working with him so far have seen.  It might be as simple as deciding to do another year of preschool in a certain setting which might even be at a charter or private school setting you would like him to attend to rule it in or rule it out.  The more information you have can only assist in finding the right placement for him, and will help you to ask the right questions in seeing what various programs offer.  Since the testing will be done privately, it does not necessarily need to be shared with any school division if  you choose not to.

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