Workingmom: We felt the same way when we were considering preschool for our son. It was recommended that he be in a school for kids with autism and we were against it because we thought it would cause our son to scream or bang his head or "act weird." It turns out it was the best thing ever, because as Cat noted, those teachers are often more attuned to differences in abilities in kids. He absolutely flourished with the individual attention that was provided. The classroom was filled with asynchronously developing kids so there is no way the curriculum could be "one size fits all." Their individual needs were determined and met! I wish he could have stayed there longer, but he did SO well, that it was time for him to move on to a "typical" classroom. Nan
