504 plan?

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I'm trying to decide whether I should get her on a 504 plan, or seek sped services for my daughter who was just diagnosed with PDD-NOS. My daughter is in her last year of preschool, and she's been doing wonderfully. Neuropsych doesn't feel I'd need to seek an eval through the school district for special education, but I was thinking about getting a 504 plan just so she could get some pragmatic speech, since there is a speech teacher in every classroom anyway (public preschool), and so she won't have to go through more tests via the school district (she's been tested to death). Her main issue is variable eye contact and stereotypical motor movements. The neuropsych said if it weren't for those two things, she would not have qualified PDD-NOS. She showed great social reciprocity in play, but it was decreased in conversation. She was sick that day as well, and didn't want to have any part of the testing. The neuropsych said she showed some symptoms of Aspergers, but she does not have any preoccupations, she initiates conversation...so on and so on. Neuropsych said if everything got better, and she continued to do well socially and academically, there's no need to retest her (once the PDD-NOS label goes away). If she starts showing more symptoms, I can have her retested.

Advice?

My understanding is that the 504 allows you accommodations but will not allow you to access special services. If you are looking for speech help, which is fantastic in many schools, you will need an IEP.

I don't feel like I've got enough to give an opinion on if this is something you will find important for your unique child. You do have time, in my opinion. If she will need services or accommodations, you'll want it set by second grade or so, and may need a year to get things in place. Which leaves you a year to see how she does. IF her school is good at teaching to the unique child, and doesn't need a piece of paper before they'll offer a sound sensitive child headphones, etc.

The offset is that it would be rare to have picked up on something in the preschool years, and not have an issue in the school years.

Still, we went into elementary clean slate and it didn't cost my son in any ways. Maybe actually allowed us to get all the way to ASD instead of just sensory issues ( which is all that was suspected when he was four). But, we had one of those teach to the unique child schools, and that softened any early problems we could have had.

Hard to know, is really what it comes down to. Mommy instinct time!