Andrea: You are so wonderful to think about my son!

You know I thought about that. But NOPE.

I don't see any reason why he should be held back for an year! For what?

I love "SOCIAL PROMOTION FOR KIDS UNDER IQ70"!!
Esp, for kids w ASD w MR?Autism? Mainly, because you can't drastically change their IQs or their reading, writing or speaking skills by keeping them in self container w/o normal peer models!

My son used to cry, instead of using other useful socially accpetable forms of communications. But now, he had seen how other kids in his class talk or laugh or communicate w words, instead of crying! Talk is a preferred method or using other modes of communication is better than crying. He needs to have constant normal peer role models to sustain those good skills he had acquired from age three to ten NOW!

If I let him to stay w other disabled for few more months, he will be losing all the skills he has learnt for sure. He may not catch up w all other kids of his age group. Because if he did then he does not need any special ed. or have a Dx of Autism.

The bigger kids and little kids can stay together as long as they are "normal" around him! They have to present normal ways of dealing w their envt for him to see daily every hour!

He can't sit by some kid, who is twirling hair, flapping hands, screaming, slapping face, picking nose or nail beds, or vocalizing constantly, jumping around,
talking to self, or covering ears etc. please don't get me wrong!

I LOVE ALL THE KIDS. BUT THIS IS WHAT I WANT FOR MY SON. LONG TERM BENEFITS OF BEING MAINSTREAMED IN AN
INCLUSIVE SETTING IS GREATEST THAN YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE.

My family and my community is all inclusive and I want my son to be prepared to live in his natural setting only. Not in group homes or institutions, at least when I am alive. Once I die, or when he becomes an orphan..crying..then the his mother state IL will decide for him. That will be his destiny.