Accommodation for ASD in selective high school interview
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Anonymous
| What is a bright kid with autism to do? |
Anonymous
| What do you want them to do? |
Anonymous
| If they can’t get through an interview they probably aren’t ready for the school. |
Anonymous
| They can probably do the school but meeting people is a different kind of skill. |
Anonymous
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I mean they will have to go on many interviews in life.
Again….what do you want the school to do? |
Anonymous
| So they can’t interview at all or they just did a bad job at SWW and you’re trying to figure out what to do next? |
Anonymous
| There are kids on the spectrum at application HS. |
Anonymous
| The typical accomodations you could ask for in a job interview are things like, getting the questions ahead of time, more time to answer, an interview room that's less noisy, and one interviewer instead of a panel. If you think any of those types of things would be useful, you could ask. But who knows either if they would accept or if they would accept but penalize your kid. If you think there's absolutely no way the kid could get through without these, though, you might as well ask. |
Anonymous
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SWW and Banneker have 0 kids with IEPs. That tells you a lot about their attitude toward students with disabilities.
FWIW, my autistic teen (not at SWW) is an excellent interviewee -- it's easier than regular reciprocal conversation for her. This is a skill that can be taught. |
Anonymous
| I was going to say that parents with younger kids should request interview training as part of the IEP. But now I’m thinking perhaps it should be straight-up part of the curriculum for everyone. What is DCPS doing, judging all these 13 year olds by their interview skills without ever teaching interview skills? Inevitably it favors kids with outside training. |
Anonymous
Wow! Ableist much? |
Anonymous
| Basically the kiddo is awkward in social interactions. Doesn’t make eye contact well. Takes some time to process questions. Can come across as rude if you don’t know the situation. When people know the situation and factor it in the kid comes across better and as thoughtful. |
Anonymous
this is so untrue and also illegal if that’s the attitude of the school. personally I think interviews are extremely questionable for public school admissions unless its for an arts performance program. |
Anonymous
If they do not get selected I’d sue. 100% serious. Make them show the documentation about how they made the decision and what role the interview played. |
Anonymous
Just what we need...more litigation. You know lawsuits aren't free, right? You also think the school is going to write down all the smoking gun reasons why the kid was rejected. My recollection from when my kid did these interviews (this was back when there was still a Walls entrance test) was nobody wrote anything down...they used to interview the parents, so at least they didn't write anything down for us, but I don't recall seeing anyone with a pad for notes. It all seemed like nonsense and I guess the rumor back then is your acceptance was just tied to your entrance test score anyway. |