My preschool son has AS and is (according to his teacher) academically gifted. He is in a special ed classroom now for behavior issues but will be "mainstreamed" when he gets to kindergarten. His current teacher, though, thinks he already knows everything they teach in kindergarten and that he may be learning on a third grade level (he is 4 years old). So what do we do? He is not mature enough to skip a grade, and his social skills are very delayed. When he is bored in the classroom he tends to act up (knocking things over, climbing on bookshelves, etc.), but when he is presented with challenging material he does very well. Has anyone been through this? What can be done in school for a child who is way behind his peers socially and emotionally, but way ahead of them academically? There just doesn't seem to be a right place for him.
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