My four year old son has been in an early intervention preschool classroom for one year. He receives speech and language therapy, OT and PT. A developmental pediatrician has diagnosed him with developmental motor disorder and possible auditory processing disorder. He also has poor motor sequencing problems.
I have two current concerns:
1) He tests very poorly on receptive language measures (1st percentile), but test above average for his age in expressive language (he is VERY verbal). This is NOT consistent with APD, but what else could be going on? Has anyone seen this before? He baffles his therapists.
2) They would like to keep him one more year, but his classroom peers do not provide his desired level of social interaction (this is a strengh for him, but many of his classmates are nonverbal or struggling with social skills). How can I expect him to perform in a typial classroom? I would like to see him in one before making the decision to send him to Kindergarden next year.
Thanks.