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Anyone have a dc in private preschool with an IEP?

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  If your child attends a private preschool and has an IEP how does that work?  We are transferring from public to private so it will be a new thing for us and I don't know what if any changes there will be.  Our son's birthday is in August and though his teachers  feel that he is ready to attend kinder we have decided that an extra year is in his best interest.  I heard a whisper of a rumour that because he could be enrolled in kindie and we are choosing to hold him back, added to the move to a private school- that we could lose our IEP (we would get it back as soon as he starts kindie). 

  I won't really know anything for sure till the IEP meeting but really all he is getting is the embedded support (which he will get anyways- they are open to us bringing in our ABA or an AIDE for as much or little as we feel he needed)and 2 30 min group speech pull outs.  WE feel that we will be making that back in spades becaise of the incredily enriching courses that are offered at this new private school.  For examplt he doesnt qulaify for OT but at the public school I can sign him up for a handwiriting class taught by an OT.  They have three social skills groups- one is social skills thru language arts, the next is social skills thru gymnastics, and the third is just Freindship circle.  They also have karate, swim, soccer, gymnastics, math, multiple languages, drama, and a bunch of others.  We are hoping that this will be a year for him to really enjoy school and be able to try lots of things andgure out what he is into for (for now as I am sure what he is into will evolve).  They attend school till 1 then attend whatever enrichments you choose till 3 and after that you can sign them up for additonal calllses thru the community cetnter or they can hang out in the baby sitting room depdnding on how late they need to stay and how schduled you want their time.But I guess I'm telling myself that whatever I might lose in pull outs I will gain in class and enrI wish I had more time to clean this post up and ask all my questions but im too tired to go on so I'll revist this tomorrOW : )

 

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Re: Anyone have a dc in private preschool with an IEP?

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    This private school is well known in the community for their inclusion program, I've read many reviews and spoke with many parents. They have lots of children with IEPs and the district sends therapists to see them during school hours. Our aba case manager was once upon a time an aide there. The director told me the only time they have ever asked a family to leave was because the parents told the school the child's behavior was "their problem". As long as we are willing to provide an aide if needed (and we are) and we are involved with the solution they want to work with us. I meant at the private school I can sign him up for those enrichments- not public. I wrote that very late at night. At the private school he will be in a class designed for kids who are attending that extra year of preschool (young 5s). I spoke with the public school principal, she said she didn't realize how young ds is or she would have suggested it to us- she said she gets ALOT of people with spring kids asking to redshirt and she thinks that is a mistake but in his case he will barely turn 5 before the first day of school.
    How will it short him a couple years of services? What I'm trying to figure out is what services he will lose. He doesn't get pull outs or an aide, private has already said they will provide visual schedules, sensory breaks, etc at the new school and will let our aba therapists come in and design supports (the public schoolis very closed off- it is tough to get any information and we are only permitted one twenty minute observation every thirty days).
    Still I am no doubt nervous about taking him from a place where they are to some degree required to provide for him to a place where they are not. The principal at his public school said we can always come back and he would Defintely get services at the public regardless of the extra year- because he is in August he falls into a category where we get a choice (I don't kow the name of it). If we stay at public he can only attend 4 half days a week- that's how all of this started. We want to send him till 3 (ever since he started in the gen Ed class he has been asking why he has to go home while the rest of the class stays there). The public school will not let us just pay for the second half of the day and even if we paid for the full day (just didn't accept the free hours) then he would lose his IEP any hours he was there outside of those four half days, if he needed an aide we couldn't even pay for one because they would be admitting he needed one and then be beholden to provide one. He isn't impacted enough to qualify for their extended day program but I'm scared to just put him in the gen Ed program and cross my fingers that he can perform without support. At least at the private we can send someone in if we feel he needs the support.
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