Hard to believe that Ethan will start kindergarten in the fall. I go register him next week but a couple week's ago we met with his pre-k teacher, the special needs kindergarten teacher and all his therapists to discuss Ethan's transition into kindergarten.
I won't go into too much detail, as it's a cumbersome event, but we all left happy with how he's doing and what the next step will be. As you can see from these photos, some days he comes home exhausted from school.
While we want Ethan to be included as much as possible in a typical classroom setting, we are realistic in his abilities at this time and I think putting him in a regular classroom at this time would be far too overwhelming for him. So he'll go into a special needs classroom for kids in kindergarten through 2nd grade. He will get pulled out for specials (music, PE, media, etc.) with a regular kindergarten class and then he'll also get an extra session with a special needs PE teacher (within a regular PE class). This will give him exposure to a typical classroom so that hopefully he will be able to join a typical classroom in his future.
We've heard great things about the special needs classroom and that it's very orderly and well run, so that puts me at ease. He's already ahead of many typical kids going into kindergarten as he knows his alphabet, colors and numbers up to 20 and can spell his name. I think Ethan will thrive in an environment where he is expected to do work but has the resources to help him.
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