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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 521527" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>If you are in the USA they HAVE to have Early Childhood SPECIAL education (ecse). This is different from Early Childhood Preschool programs (ecfe=early childhood family ed.)</p><p></p><p>The federal mandate requires that all public school districts MUST follow is to provide services from the age of birth so if you call the special education department of your district and tell them you have a preschool aged child who has autism they will be able to tell you what free services are available. Don't take NO for an answer. They can't NOT service him if he qualifies under Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). They may do it in your home though if your community has it set up that way. I did that for years as a teacher and it was a wonderful job... and my son was in it from the time he was ONE year old!!! LOL. So, that therapy is free (teaching, Occupational Therapist (OT), PT, Speech/Lang communication, or whatever of those are required). For sure go ahead and hold back if you feel that is best, at this age it will not hurt really since he is so close to the cut off, but I think we are saying it will not likely allow him to catch up to his peers. He may always have needs no matter....but you wont know unless you try.....(I did this for mine too because he was so small and immature and WAS doing things with the grade younger at the time and I am so GLAD I did it... it would have been awful if he was a grade older than he is now).... but in terms of early childhood, the nice thing is with the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis you can start the IEP process NOW and have things in place BEFORE kindergarten starts. They can work with him and prepare him so he may do well in the general education setting because they will already know his needs.</p><p></p><p>Good Luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 521527, member: 12886"] If you are in the USA they HAVE to have Early Childhood SPECIAL education (ecse). This is different from Early Childhood Preschool programs (ecfe=early childhood family ed.) The federal mandate requires that all public school districts MUST follow is to provide services from the age of birth so if you call the special education department of your district and tell them you have a preschool aged child who has autism they will be able to tell you what free services are available. Don't take NO for an answer. They can't NOT service him if he qualifies under Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). They may do it in your home though if your community has it set up that way. I did that for years as a teacher and it was a wonderful job... and my son was in it from the time he was ONE year old!!! LOL. So, that therapy is free (teaching, Occupational Therapist (OT), PT, Speech/Lang communication, or whatever of those are required). For sure go ahead and hold back if you feel that is best, at this age it will not hurt really since he is so close to the cut off, but I think we are saying it will not likely allow him to catch up to his peers. He may always have needs no matter....but you wont know unless you try.....(I did this for mine too because he was so small and immature and WAS doing things with the grade younger at the time and I am so GLAD I did it... it would have been awful if he was a grade older than he is now).... but in terms of early childhood, the nice thing is with the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis you can start the IEP process NOW and have things in place BEFORE kindergarten starts. They can work with him and prepare him so he may do well in the general education setting because they will already know his needs. Good Luck! [/QUOTE]
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