My daughter is "level 1 autistic", "highly functional", all the labels and buzzwords but ultimately in practice she's "normal" enough to enter a structured classroom with everyone else, she's just over-wiggly, has a terrible attention span, has a weird food sensitivity that no one has pinned down yet, and lastly a speech issue that her SLP thinks is actually a pulmonary issue and not a stutter. here in america she's not given enough structure or support in her preschool because she's not 'needy enough'.
I'm able to find resources for all of these issues from a medical standpoint just fine (and have even secured a couple appointments for specialists already) but what I'm really concerned about is Kindergarten. She'll be 5 when we land in August, but her birthday is in May so I guess she'll be among the oldest in her classes. I don't know how an average public yochien is with kids like her and being buried in visa paperwork I'm having trouble figuring out if kids like her fall through the cracks in Japan too.
Are any other parents of audhd/'sensitive' foreigner children in Japan able to point me towards resources/anecdotes/testimonies about what her school life could be like for the next few years?
by nbqt2015