His main early intervention speech therapist is fairly freshly out of school and I don't think she has much experience beyond "normal" speech delayed kids under 3. Pretty much no experience with autistic or gifted kids frown. She just can't seem to be able to think outside of the school-taught box. His developmental therapist on the other hand is probably little over 50 years old and has worked with autistic kids and gets him ... as soon as she got to know him, she started bringing more advanced toys and activities and has been able to engage him a lot more and I don't think he's ever ... not ONCE thrown a tantrum while with her.

So I think what I really need to do at this point is focus on finding a new speech therapist (since he's out of EI in 2 months) who has experience with both, gifted and autistic rather than just a general language pathologist? And not worry much about school just yet and let him mature a little more and then maybe start the preschool in September (vs. starting right away in March)