In retrospect, one of ours' preschool placement worked out really well in this respect, though inadvertently. Attending a lab school with both little students and big students provided a natural environment in which our child could fluidly move from social situations with age-peers to those with not-quite-adults without anyone remarking on it. To be fair, this one is pretty social across age ranges, and would not be described by anyone as having social delays. But I do think it helped, during the period when the more likely problem would have been a failure to treat adults with the deference they often expect from young children (not in a disrespectful way, just because they would be viewed as peers, just like the "other" kids).
Of course, we still ended up homeschooling eventually.
Last edited by aeh; 10/10/14 08:10 AM.
