services and wwyd

my ds who is 3 qualified for full day pre-school through cpse but we have not been able to find a preschool opening for him especially since it is mid year. He will get speech and counseling.

His biggest issue is he is very self-directed and does not do good with transition or new people. He will cry and cry and cry. When we started preschool a regular one he cried for hours everyday. So we stopped.

Since we haven't found a school they will give him speech and social skills counseling at a place and then a SEIT at home a couple of hours a week. I'm afraid with all the new people at once he will not settle at all. Should i stagger the start or just jump all in. His speech has greatly improved his speech teacher was surprised he qualified.

Any advice is appreciated.

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My son started at 2 very self directed & strong. He cried and yelled for the first month or two. He had a short attention span struggled with speech and language. The worst thing you can do is delay any more time for services I wouldn't stagger either. What I did was sit with him until he got comfortable with home services. School will handle him there. It will not be easy at first i remember thinking one of the teachers being too tough looking back she wasnt thats what he needed. My son needed someone fun but stern. You will see the progress!

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thanks - he had speech at home for the past year but never really clicked with the teacher I think so we had to sit in everyweek and many days were hit and miss.
We will give it a shot. I am hoping it will help him and he will mature all at the same time.

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Just wanted to add start thinking of positive reinforcers you and the school can use to get him to focus for services favorite snacks, toy, stickers, mini m&ms etc


The very first program my son had was to just sit lol if he sat for 5 seconds that was huge in the beginning and he got a snack.

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services and wwyd

My DS started half day school at 2 and full day a few months before he turned 3. It was great for him. I would start all of it at once, because then he will have one transition instead of several. The special needs preschools are trained to handle your child, so I wouldn't worry about sending him. My DS was in daycare before he started school (and then was there for afterschool) and while they loved him, they weren't trained in dealing with a lot of his issues.