Mainstream private MS for ASD

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Christ Episcopal in Rockville

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Green Acres.

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Anonymous wrote:The Newton School in Sterling. It has buses from North Arlington.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to get a spot for 6th anywhere. You could try McLean School of Maryland. The accommodate learning differences, but tend to have kids with very mild issues only and they are considered more of a hybrid between mainstream and very mild SN.

Y’all need to stop recommending schools like McLean and Siena for autistic children. They actively discriminate against these kids. They will not accept them. I know this first hand. ASD is tough.

Check out Diener. They’re expanding this year with a new building so may still have room.

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Anonymous wrote:Would he like Waldorf?

We were in WWS in lower school, there are a lot of wonderful families and quirky kids, but the academics are weak and more importantly there is no support for any SN.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get a spot for 6th anywhere. You could try McLean School of Maryland. The accommodate learning differences, but tend to have kids with very mild issues only and they are considered more of a hybrid between mainstream and very mild SN.

Y’all need to stop recommending schools like McLean and Siena for autistic children. They actively discriminate against these kids. They will not accept them. I know this first hand. ASD is tough.

Check out Diener. They’re expanding this year with a new building so may still have room.

+ 1 on McLean

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Newton School in Sterling. It has buses from North Arlington.

+1

+ 1. My ADHD/ASD kid has thrived at Newton. DC started in sixth grade and has been admitted to one mainstream private for high school and waitlisted at another competitive school. Newton was a game changer for us.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Newton School in Sterling. It has buses from North Arlington.

+1

+ 1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would he like Waldorf?

We were in WWS in lower school, there are a lot of wonderful families and quirky kids, but the academics are weak and more importantly there is no support for any SN.

Same, we are in PCWS. They don’t provide any support for SN students.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get a spot for 6th anywhere. You could try McLean School of Maryland. The accommodate learning differences, but tend to have kids with very mild issues only and they are considered more of a hybrid between mainstream and very mild SN.

Y’all need to stop recommending schools like McLean and Siena for autistic children. They actively discriminate against these kids. They will not accept them. I know this first hand. ASD is tough.

Check out Diener. They’re expanding this year with a new building so may still have room.

+ 1 on McLean

Same goes for Burke. It’s not a special needs school and offers pretty limited accommodations, mostly for ADHD type issues (extra time, use of calculator, preferential seating—that’s basically it). The school is not set up to accommodate ASD students.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get a spot for 6th anywhere. You could try McLean School of Maryland. The accommodate learning differences, but tend to have kids with very mild issues only and they are considered more of a hybrid between mainstream and very mild SN.

Y’all need to stop recommending schools like McLean and Siena for autistic children. They actively discriminate against these kids. They will not accept them. I know this first hand. ASD is tough.

Check out Diener. They’re expanding this year with a new building so may still have room.

+ 1 on McLean

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get a spot for 6th anywhere. You could try McLean School of Maryland. The accommodate learning differences, but tend to have kids with very mild issues only and they are considered more of a hybrid between mainstream and very mild SN.

Y’all need to stop recommending schools like McLean and Siena for autistic children. They actively discriminate against these kids. They will not accept them. I know this first hand. ASD is tough.

Check out Diener. They’re expanding this year with a new building so may still have room.

“Actively discriminate”?

So you would use those same words for Sidwell and GDS and Holton and others who do not feel they are set up to handle autistic kids and thus reject such applicants?

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Yup. Though it’s not as egregious there since they don’t purport to be a special needs school. With the expanding number of kids receiving ASD diagnoses all schools would do well to evaluate candidates based upon individualized assessments of their learning profiles rather than barring the door as soon as they read ASD.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Though it’s not as egregious there since they don’t purport to be a special needs school. With the expanding number of kids receiving ASD diagnoses all schools would do well to evaluate candidates based upon individualized assessments of their learning profiles rather than barring the door as soon as they read ASD.

McLean does not purport to be a special needs school. Siena makes clear that it handles dyslexia.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get a spot for 6th anywhere. You could try McLean School of Maryland. The accommodate learning differences, but tend to have kids with very mild issues only and they are considered more of a hybrid between mainstream and very mild SN.

Y’all need to stop recommending schools like McLean and Siena for autistic children. They actively discriminate against these kids. They will not accept them. I know this first hand. ASD is tough.

Check out Diener. They’re expanding this year with a new building so may still have room.

“Actively discriminate”?

So you would use those same words for Sidwell and GDS and Holton and others who do not feel they are set up to handle autistic kids and thus reject such applicants?

I know autistic students at gds. Gds does not say explicitly no autism, even if I agree with you that they would reject the majority of autistic applicants because they don't think they can meet their needs. Lab and Siena explicitly say no autism without considering what any particular autistic student needs. Lab told me that they believe every autistic student has behavior problems.