Mary began preschool just a little over a week ago. Now there's kind of a whole story behind her going to preschool. Because she's autistic and has some trouble potty training, we had a hard time finding a private preschool for her. Also not to mention the totally obsenly crazy price of about $1000 a month for full time preschool.
Oceanside Unified School District in Southern California, has done their assessment of Mary and determined that she doesn't need any special education. But since I was able to get and actual diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder from UCSD, then OUSD has offered to place Mary temporarily in a special ed class as a school in our neighborhood. Then in a month or so of school they will reassess Mary to see if she is getting any benefit from school.
Mary loves school, by the way. She even wanted to go to school on Saturday. She goes four days a week for three hours each day and it seems like a wonderful class. She has a great teacher who has 25 years experience with special education. I am worried becuase Mary is so high functioning that people who assess her usually believe that she doesn't need any help. I want her to reach her potential, not just perform adaquately because everyone felt she could do "fine" without any assisstance. I hope the new teacher will see that Mary is very smart and agrees that Mary would benefit grately from preschool this year and next.
See next post for an update...
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