General class or specialized class (Quebec)

[u/Koukime]

Hi everyone, I have been a lurker for a while, since my son received his official diagnosis around 6 months ago. We started the "agir tôt" program when he was 2, we received his diagnosis when he turned 4. We have just registered him in school last week, I was transparent with them, discussed his diagnosis and provided contacts for his daycare and he's working with a behavioral therapist 2 hours a weeks as well. After reviewing his diagnosis, the asked us to bring him to school to attend the kindergarten class for 1h30 to see how he will do. I was a little bit skeptical, his biggest challenge is transitions. Having him is class with 18 others kids and a teacher that he never met before for 1h30 to evaluate him seemed ridiculous. We complied, took him to school, he insisted that I stay in class with him so I did and it went relatively well, no meltdowns and he interacted with some of the kids around the end of the session. After that we spoke to the school speech therapist and he gave us his initial feedback which was that he thinks that LO will adjust if given time and little bit of support in the classroom and that he will provide his official feedback after he discusses with his colleagues. The school speech therapist contacted us after a couple of days saying that he thinks is it's better that we apply for a specialized class ( this will be in a different school). The behavioral therapist and daycare provider. Ith think that LO can do great in general class. We are torn, I don't if I should push to have him in general class and conti he supporting him outside of class, the school did say that they are short on personnel, so they cannot guarantee that LO can have 1:1 when transitioning to school, this is why they wanted him to go to a specialized class. I was okay with this but then it dawned on me that. They never gave him a chance, I'm 90% sure if he goes to general class after a couple of weeks he will get used to the routine and adjust, if he can have 1:1 support just the first few weeks, it would be sufficient. I have no idea what the specialized classes are like, I feel like it's better for him to be around NT kids. Also his behavioral therapist was against it and told me that getting him out of the specialized class to general could be hard, the system in not great and this discouraged me and my partner.

For people is Quebec who had their kids attend specialized class, Garcia it like ? Did it help your kid be better ? Were you kids able to attends general class afterwards ? Any insight would help.

LO is verbal, managed to express himself in French and English( but still has language challenges) , the hardest thing for him are transitions.

Thank you and sorry for the long post.