Lab School
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Anonymous
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Is our child a fit for the Lab School? Feedback from Lab Parents would be helpful. DS has add/adhd inattentive type and Asperger's. Bright, yet needs small class and re-direction to stay on task. Thanks.
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Anonymous
| Generally Lab school deals with LDs and not ASD. |
Anonymous
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Lab School says right up front that they don't take kids with Aspergers or anywhere else on the spectrum. There are accounts of kids who have ASDs who have done well there, but either they got in before this policy or they didn't disclose when applying.
The policy makes a lot of parents upset, but it is what it is. |
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Anonymous
| Do they say it on the website or is it unspoken? |
Anonymous
No. better schools to look at would be kingsbury, Siena, Maddux (if young) commonwealth, and auburn. |
Anonymous
I don't have a child with ASD but when I spoke with the admissions director on the phone that was one of her first questions. |
Anonymous
It says it on their website what diagnoses they don't accept. In terms of non-disclosure that PP, applicants need to submit a neuropsych evaluation within two years old. It is unlikely that if a child was on the spectrum that a report of this nature wouldn't indicate it. Many kids with language based learning issues also have issues with pragmatics and social skills. It's not unique to kids with autism. OP, I would also add The Newton School to your list and Deiner as well. (Not sure what age or geographic area you're looking for.) The Exceptional School Fair is coming up Oct. 27: http://exceptionalschoolsfair.com/Home.php |
Anonymous
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Please beware of the practices of ABA at the Auburn School if your child has any "behavioral" issues. They use restraint holds and seclusion, their teachers are unqualified and the director is, terrible. I cannot say enough negative things about the school, and if I could I would erase entirely the year we were there. We are in public now and its working much better than we had anticipated.
We would consider Katherine Thomas School if public doesn't work. You might want to check them out as well. |
Anonymous
I am not sure when you were there or what campus but we never saw any of things you mentioned. Yes some kids are removed from the classroom when there is a behavorial issue but once they calm down, they are able to return, I never ever heard of kid having restraint holds used nor do I veer see anything like that. As far as unqualified, many fo the teaches have backgrounds in special ed as well as experience so not sure what you are referring to there either. |
Anonymous
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I was referring to the Silver Spring campus in reference to our personal experience of the use of "therapeutic" holds, so yes not restraints, I mis spoke about that, I apologize. They do the therapeutic holds outside of the classroom, or sometimes in, depending on the situation. We have personal experience of over 15 times when these holds were used. The ABA they use in the classroom is, in my opinion, very anxiety producing and counter productive to any learning environment.
When we were there both our teachers were just getting their special ed degrees, one had never taught school before. I feel compelled to share our experience with the Auburn School in Silver Spring, because if I can prevent another family having to through what we did, I would like to. That is not hyperbole, I mean it very sincerely and with respect to all the parents who may come across this post. |
Anonymous
| What kinds of holds and why were they used? I did not realize they used ABA. Is this done with all kids? When I went on the tour they painted a different pic. |
Anonymous
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PP Here
The Auburn School uses holds that are called therapeutic holds. They sit the child down, or stand behind them, wrap the children's arms around the child, then hold them. The intent is that it makes children with on the spectrum soothed, much like swaddling. For my child, when in a panic, the last thing that is wanted is to be touched, so this always set DC off into a further panic. The most difficult part of this for us was that Auburn had not told us, for about six weeks, when we had brought in a special education consultant, how often and in real time reports to us, what had been happening. They had done no FIP or BIP, they were just doing the same thing over and over again, expecting something new to occur. I don't know if they use this with all the kids. I would assume if the behavior escalates then they would. The ABA they use is about the zones of regulation and use of a token economy. In my child's classroom the teacher, every two minutes, was prompting the children about what color zone they were in, or what number of regulation they were achieving. The children were rated 1,2, or 3. All 3's was a bad day, all 1's great. My child got obsessively fixated on what numbers he had or hadn't achieved during the day, to the point of distraction from learning. see this link for a visual: http://rightresponse.org/training-workshop/physical_intervention |
Anonymous
| Whoa. As another former Auburn parent, I must state that we have never heard of or experienced this happening whatsoever. The teachers of our child were highly capable and experienced. |
Anonymous
| We attended KTS for three years, pre-K through 1, for help with social cognition and language pragmatics. It did very well by us; our child is now at a mainstream school performing at the top of the class academically and doing fine socially. |