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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 5351" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Most non-Special Education preschools for this age do have some kind of "potty trained" requirements in their guidelines and the expectation would be for the child to be able to handle this routinely. Of course, emergencies do occur when a teacher would step in to help but it wouldn't be the norm. If his former class was "taking care of everything" and sent him into a classroom where he'd need to be self-sufficient in this area it sounds like another area in which they totally missed the boat. Helping them to become self sufficient in these sorts of daily life skills is usually built right into the curriculum or IEP.</p><p></p><p>Just FYI, it's not uncommon for Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids (boys in particular) to not be fully trained and self sufficient until around age 5. Often there's a lot contributing to that including sensory issues surrounding either going and/or tidying up after.</p><p></p><p>I'd start by talking to the actual teacher. Given the situation where he was recommended to be mainstreamed and that you mid-evaluation sometimes districts will bring in someone to help put a plan in place to tide you over until the IEP stage. (ie an Occupational Therapist (OT) comes in as consult) but on the other hand I've seen kindergarten teachers have to gut out a lot of stuff until the whole process was complete.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 5351, member: 701"] Most non-Special Education preschools for this age do have some kind of "potty trained" requirements in their guidelines and the expectation would be for the child to be able to handle this routinely. Of course, emergencies do occur when a teacher would step in to help but it wouldn't be the norm. If his former class was "taking care of everything" and sent him into a classroom where he'd need to be self-sufficient in this area it sounds like another area in which they totally missed the boat. Helping them to become self sufficient in these sorts of daily life skills is usually built right into the curriculum or IEP. Just FYI, it's not uncommon for Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids (boys in particular) to not be fully trained and self sufficient until around age 5. Often there's a lot contributing to that including sensory issues surrounding either going and/or tidying up after. I'd start by talking to the actual teacher. Given the situation where he was recommended to be mainstreamed and that you mid-evaluation sometimes districts will bring in someone to help put a plan in place to tide you over until the IEP stage. (ie an Occupational Therapist (OT) comes in as consult) but on the other hand I've seen kindergarten teachers have to gut out a lot of stuff until the whole process was complete. [/QUOTE]
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