Publicly-funded Special Needs schools

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Anonymous wrote:It is disappointing that a program for kids with Aspergers doesn't have a more rigorous curriculum-isn't a high academic ability one of the hallmarks of Aspergers?

No that's a myth. But if you have an Aspie who is very bright, AAP or similar with supports will work better than a SNs school.

Sorry but what is AAP? I am new at this.

AAP is What MoCo calls their gifted and talented program.

AAP is for Fairfax. HGC is for Mont. Cty. There are a few HGCs that have 2e programs.

In MCPS what 2e programs exist? I have heard of Barnsley for grades 4-5 and Col. Brooke E. Lee for MS. Are there others?

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AAP is What MoThere are a few HGCs that have 2e programs.

Listen up, Fairfax. Why can't you have a few AAP centers that are staffed to handle the 2e population?

I would love that, but there would have to be many issues solved.

I don't think that will solve the problem unless they also go to the next level. One of the problems is that second E. It can mean vastly different accommodations. For those of you in Montgomery County with experience with their 2E program, how to they address the different needs of the students that are all in one classroom? For example, preferential seating- how can everyone sit on their preferred spot? How are the different technologies needed by different students integrated? How do they do tests where several children need scribes? How do you find the additional classrooms? Is the teacher to student ratio smaller?

It would require additional $$$, and I don't see that happening- AAP is already a target for the additional cost of the bussing - and that is minimal.

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AAP is What MoThere are a few HGCs that have 2e programs.

Listen up, Fairfax. Why can't you have a few AAP centers that are staffed to handle the 2e population?

I would love that, but there would have to be many issues solved.

I don't think that will solve the problem unless they also go to the next level. One of the problems is that second E. It can mean vastly different accommodations. For those of you in Montgomery County with experience with their 2E program, how to they address the different needs of the students that are all in one classroom? For example, preferential seating- how can everyone sit on their preferred spot? How are the different technologies needed by different students integrated? How do they do tests where several children need scribes? How do you find the additional classrooms? Is the teacher to student ratio smaller?

It would require additional $$$, and I don't see that happening- AAP is already a target for the additional cost of the bussing - and that is minimal.

And how does Montgomery get around "Least Restrictive Environment".

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10:17, that's a very good question

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My child does not need academic accommodations but social and behavioral supports only and all the schools we've looked at so far cannot seem to provide it.

The SN schools focus on the social part and not so much on the curriculum. According to MAP, the social part is "hard" so that's what they focus on. But as a parent, it's hard to focus on the social part (what my child is VERY bad at) at the expense of something he is really good at namely academics.

We are planning on a mainstream private school with small class sizes, starting in middle school, since this is the type of school everyone else in our family attended and did well in back in the day when no one got a diagnosis.

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17:20, thanks. What did you do for elementary?

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Anonymous wrote:17:20, thanks. What did you do for elementary?

We are at an immersion language school. Not gifted and talented but it provides a challenge since he has to do everything in both languages.

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Anonymous wrote:It is disappointing that a program for kids with Aspergers doesn't have a more rigorous curriculum-isn't a high academic ability one of the hallmarks of Aspergers?

No that's a myth. But if you have an Aspie who is very bright, AAP or similar with supports will work better than a SNs school.

NP-not to hijack OP's post, but we have a HFA 5th grader who qualified for AAP but we were told to leave him in his special ed program because it had better supports for him. (It is an ED class in FCPS, but he spends some time in general ed). We feel like the past two years have been wasted educational time. I wish FCPS would set up just one AAP center school with more intensive SN support.

FCPS please listen. There are many gifted kids with special needs who aren't getting the academic challenge they need. My son tried an AAP center but failed miserably because they couldn't handle his special needs.

Try private school.

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The fear with SN kids in mainstream privates is they will take your tuition money then kick you out.

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Anonymous wrote:The fear with SN kids in mainstream privates is they will take your tuition money then kick you out.

This happens more often in elementary school and younger. Usually, if they accept you for middle and above there's a track record of academic and/or behavioral issues and what accommodations the kid needs if any.

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Anonymous wrote:It is disappointing that a program for kids with Aspergers doesn't have a more rigorous curriculum-isn't a high academic ability one of the hallmarks of Aspergers?

No that's a myth. But if you have an Aspie who is very bright, AAP or similar with supports will work better than a SNs school.

NP-not to hijack OP's post, but we have a HFA 5th grader who qualified for AAP but we were told to leave him in his special ed program because it had better supports for him. (It is an ED class in FCPS, but he spends some time in general ed). We feel like the past two years have been wasted educational time. I wish FCPS would set up just one AAP center school with more intensive SN support.

FCPS please listen. There are many gifted kids with special needs who aren't getting the academic challenge they need. My son tried an AAP center but failed miserably because they couldn't handle his special needs.

Try private school.

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Anonymous wrote:So, the answer to OP's question is: nowhere?

Pretty much. Our neuropsych told us straight out that we were not going to get the same level of academics at a SN school as we do in our current public or at a mainstream private school.

And he or she knows this just how? And how can a physician make such a wide-sweeping claim covering all SN schools? Let's have your neuropsych come and sit in on my DC's AB/BC Calculus class and then say that.

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Anonymous wrote:So, the answer to OP's question is: nowhere?

Pretty much. Our neuropsych told us straight out that we were not going to get the same level of academics at a SN school as we do in our current public or at a mainstream private school.

And he or she knows this just how? And how can a physician make such a wide-sweeping claim covering all SN schools? Let's have your neuropsych come and sit in on my DC's AB/BC Calculus class and then say that.

There aren't that many schools that serve Asperger's which is my kid's diagnosis. DS does not need help with academics but need social supports so we're talking about Ivymount MAP and Auburn. The neuropsych has previous clients who attended these schools and according to the parents, the academics were "under whelming".

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Anonymous wrote:So, the answer to OP's question is: nowhere?

Pretty much. Our neuropsych told us straight out that we were not going to get the same level of academics at a SN school as we do in our current public or at a mainstream private school.

And he or she knows this just how? And how can a physician make such a wide-sweeping claim covering all SN schools? Let's have your neuropsych come and sit in on my DC's AB/BC Calculus class and then say that.

There aren't that many schools that serve Asperger's which is my kid's diagnosis. DS does not need help with academics but need social supports so we're talking about Ivymount MAP and Auburn. The neuropsych has previous clients who attended these schools and according to the parents, the academics were "under whelming".

Would you like names of other schools that may have less "watered-down" academics and still takes Asperger's if they have room?

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I'm not PP, but I'd love to hear about schools with advanced academics that will take kids with Asperger's. We are still trying to make public work for now.....