Ds loves his preschool. There are only 8 kids in the class. Quite a few happen to be special needs kids. Unfortunately the teacher is blaming ds for the other kids bad behavior when he isn't in the class. She said to the Special ed teacher that they are copying DS behavior.

I am not upset. I am totally just concentrating on what is best for ds. We are waiting to get two hours a day of special ed help for ds in the regular ed class. The school district is so busy they have not gotten back to use about our request for more special ed help.


If he is asked to leave the school, we are trying another excellent preschool in the area that has openings! The special education teacher thinks he is doing great in the regular preschool but thinks we need to find a receptive teacher that can tolerate ds repeating requests. He isn't hyperactive.

The OT is really helping DS. He loves the swing in the playground now. He is doing arm swings too on the monkey bars which he learned in ot.

Now if only he wasn't so sensitive and over stimulated. The special ed teacher said he just gets excited when he sees something exciting and focuses on it and verbalizes the excitement and repeats. He has to learn self control but it is going to come slowly.

By Kaye on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 01:23 pm:

Feona, does your son have a diagnosis? Both my boys have sensory issues, my 2nd grader now is mostly fine. My youngest is 5 and he always sounds very very similar to your son. He is kindergarten and finally seem to be getting it! He is able to control most of his behaviors and his self control is so much better. That repeating thing gets old, but hopefully he will learn to manage those thoughts!

By Fraggle on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 03:28 pm:

I don't know how things work in New York, especially as far as preschoolers go, but do you have some kind of case manager or someone who coordinates your son's special ed program? I used to work in special education (before I had kids) at both the pre-school and school level. Maybe you should request a meeting with all the people who work with your son, so his teacher can communicate her concerns directly to you and not through a third person. I don't think it is appropriate that she is blaming your son for the other kids behavior. I hope everything works out.
-Meredith

By Feona on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 06:23 pm:

No my son has no diagnosis. He was tested for pervasive development disorder and they said he didn't have it.


I met a woman who has daughter had been diagnosised with borderline autism and her dd is in regular kindergarten now and doing fine! So the outcomes for these kids have changed with early diagnosis and treatment such as speech therapy, ot therapy, physical therapy and ABA therapy!

I really like the regular ed teachers ds has this year. I think they are being very kind to ds even if they are overwhelmed by ds and the other kids in the class.

I hope everything works out at the school but if it doesn't he is going to the other excellent regular ed school I found. The special ed teacher said I just have to find a school that tolerates ds talking. (He talks constantly at times.)

Really a very minor problem I think.


I really adore taking ds to the park and library after school and having lunch with him. It is so much better than losing him to 6 hours of special ed and 3 hours on a bus every day. He is so thriving. He is asking why about things today... So cool.