One step forward...Two steps back

So remember how I said that Nathan was doing well in preschool?? His Occupational Therapist is talking about releasing him from therapy, because he's made so much progress....so today I discussed it with his preschool teachers and one (who was his teacher last year) said that he had made progress, but she still sees him zoning out and not focussing well. She said he is doing better, but still not on par with the other kids as far as abilities go. The other teacher doesn't really believe that he has a sensory issue...she said that he's just slow. (which I'm hoping that she doesn't mean unintelligent).

Slow.

The word keeps coming back to me. I know he's been behind and we've worked really hard with him, but his teacher doesn't show any signs of working with me to help the problems. It breaks my heart. I keep telling myself that she's a 22-year old girl who has no experience at all with 4 year olds (or parents) and that she doesn't know what she's talking about.

Nathan's OT happened to call after we got home, and I talked to her about these things and basically she agreed that the teacher doesn't know anything about SPD and that Nathan is extremely intelligent. She said we could set new goals at our next meeting.

I guess this is just another case for why we need to homeschool him. I'm not ready to lump him in with the other kids and hope he finds a place in the herd. I think it's ridiculous at age 4 to label him as slow....we can't settle for that. I think we need to work as hard as we can to help him be the best Nathan that he can be. At least by working with him at home, we can go at his pace, and know that he can have the best opportunity to not fall through the cracks.