Sheppard Pratt or KKI school for 3rd grader

[Anonymous]

Good luck OP. Hopefully with the experience of this past year, and its feedback to potential schools, your child is placed at somewhere that is a good fit.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people have had great success with Calo. If you can get funding from your adoption it would be something to look into. The good about MCPS is that there are a wide variety of SN programs. The bad is that there are a wide variety of programs so MCPS is very rarely willing to consider funding a residential program. And in most cases MCPS will pay for the educational component but not the therapeutic, room or board aspects. In some states like CA, the schools pay for all of it!

I don’t think RICA Rockville is any more restrictive than the other non publics you mentioned. The other schools I was referred to were Foundation and Laurel Hall. Foundation was horrific and I walked out crying. It was nothing more than a holding facility. Laurel Hall was a good fit but Frederick was too far. Admissions and I talked about what would happen if he couldn’t get on the bus at the end of the day and I had to come pick him up. I told them if they called me at 3:30 and told me to come get him, depending on traffic, I might be able to be there by 5. They were not happy with that idea. I think Laurel Hall is an option for people who live in northern MoCo but not a great option for people that live in the southern portion.

What about Katherine Thomas? Or Phillips Annandale? I don’t know the schools that incorporate ABA. Compared to many areas of the country we have a wealth of options—it does suck when none of the options available seem to be the right fit.

If the child was rejected at Lourie, there is NO way Katherine Thomas will accept them.

[Anonymous]

+1 I was going to post the same about KTS. They are very concerned about “behaviors.”

And yes, it is 100% possible in a certain county in DMV to wait a year or more for an appropriate placement. There are more kids than spots. You get stuck in IIS purgatory until you get in or give up.

Sorry OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Help please with views, if your kid goes to those schools! Here’s some detail -my DC was diagnosed late (long waiting lists at Childrens national for a neurospych, perhaps my reluctance to admit the problem), so DC ended up being sent to SESES for “emotional disability” (DC used to hit). We now have an autism/ ADHD diagnosis, with anxiety to boot, caused by the overzealous disciplining at SESES (again I blame myself, they were just doing their job, they are not geared to autistic children). Unfortunately, at SESES DC picked up a bunch of bad habits like foul language and lying which we are still working on, and he became completely intolerant to sitting in a classroom (kept eloping). On the positive side, we have put hitting behind us. More recently, we are on meds, which have made DC a calm child (!). Last month, CIEP approved funding for non-public, and we just got rejected from the Lourie Center and Ivymount (they’re worried about needing 1:1 aide to keep DC in class), and we are still waiting to hear from KKI and Sheppard Pratt. Which one would you choose, or if you think both are inappropriate, would you homeschool? DC tests within the official range for gifted children on standardized tests (e.g. DIBELS of 243 this year, MAP-M in the top 1 percentile in K), but DC’s working memory and processing speed are at the 5th percentile. More important than academics (which I can always supplement on), DC has low self-confidence and feelings of failure, and poor social skills which frustrates DC a lot. So KKI, Sheppard Pratt, homeschool, or another school - and if so, which?

Would you mind speaking to the "over zealous discipline" at the SESES program? My child may be recommended for this at FVES and I am curious if this is where your child was and what they were disciplined for and how it was over zealous. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1 I was going to post the same about KTS. They are very concerned about “behaviors.”

And yes, it is 100% possible in a certain county in DMV to wait a year or more for an appropriate placement. There are more kids than spots. You get stuck in IIS purgatory until you get in or give up.

Sorry OP.

Very common in FCPS as well unfortunately

[Anonymous]

OP here, on the PP question above : No our SESES was not FVES, and subsequently I understand the program was rejigged as there were several lawsuits against it and irregularities were uncovered. So this has been addressed it seems (quoting from the people in the know), we are going non-public placement as I noted above and away from the SESES route.

[Anonymous]

Hello I am wondering if you found a placement for your child. If so, where?