My daughter is 6 years old, in going into the first grade, and has PDD-NOS. She has some significant anxiety that came on during the school year last year. She was in a horrible situation. Her IEP wasn't followed (because of the staffing issues), OT wasn't available (to cover themselves legally she had indirect services 1X per month via a phone call to the sped teacher; completely horrible...by the end of March, I got it up to 2X per month direct services but that was still grossly inadequate), and the music teacher screamed at the class as a group which would cause my daughter to cry (lots of noise sensory issues) which would cause the teacher to scream at her and kick her out of class. The psych would then call me unable to calm my daughter who was hysterical. This happened at least a couple of times a month. By 2nd semester, my daughter wasn't supposed to be in music according to IEP, but that wasn't always followed (it became a cat and mouse game for the school to see what they could do behind my back without me finding out). Anyway...she now is scared to death of school. We have done lots of therapy and OT, but it hasn't helped. We moved for the sole reason of getting her out of that school. She is going to a small private school and will have OT and speech via the large public school in the same town as the private school (this town is 30 minutes from the small public school she was in last year in another town; it has no teachers/students in common). None of this matters. Her anxiety has escalated as school has gotten closer. We are now 1 week from school. She can't sleep or even go to her room to grab something (she can't be by herself for any reason for any length of time). She has frequent stomach pains and has had a couple of complete meltdowns in the last month. She's living a nightmare. Our doctor has worked with us and isn't one to push meds. She is now recommending a low dose of zoloft. Anyone else have any opinions on this or things that worked for their kids? Thanks in advance.