My son Jarrett was diganosed as High Functioning Autistic at 3 years old. He started out in the PPCD program at 3 and then was mainstreamed into Pre-K at 4. He did so well, the school reccommended he attend Kindergarden (mainstream) with no special needs assistance. It's now been two months since school began, and my son seems to be regressing. He's constantly introuble for disrupting the class and having severe meltdowns. He's been introuble for biting at least 6 times, and has even hit an aide. Now there are many factors that I have to consider as the cause to these outbursts. 1) My son just turned 5 in August while the other students in his class are all either 6 or turning 6. We we're given the option of holding him back a year beacuse he's so much younger than his classmates, but decided against it. 2) He has no one to one aide in a class of 19 students and one teacher. This new classroom enviroment could be very over stimulating for him. 3) My husband is in the military and constantly gone for weeks at a time, he's hardly home these days and when he is he's at work all day. I and his teacher have noticed that his behavior becomes worse everytime his father is out of town.
At the moment I have three options...Keep him in school and let things playout, Pull him out of school and homeschool him for the remainder of the year, or transfer him to another school which offers a PALS program with a more one on one enviroment for childern with special needs. I am 3 months pregnant and extremely high risk, dealing with this is very stressful and I am completely at a loss as to what I should do now. I really need some advise. HELP!