Publicly-funded Special Needs schools
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Anonymous
| Which private special needs schools are recommended for HFA children with very high cognitive and abilities but poor social skills/poor emotional regulation? A child who needs an AAP type curriculum but also a lot of social skills work? |
Anonymous
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There aren't any. We visited Ivymount MAP and the curriculum isn't anything like AAP especially in math. The English classes in grades 3, 4 and 5 are combined and they don't offer a foreign language.
Auburn seems better at differentiation but they don't take publicly funded students. |
Anonymous
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How do they combine grades 3, 4 and 5 for English? That seems crazy.
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Anonymous
They are all in the same classroom sitting in desks working with the same teacher at least during our observation. There were 9 kids and seven adults in the classroom if I recall correctly. |
Anonymous
| 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? |
Anonymous
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MAP follows the common core standards, a very average expectations and nothing like AAP thus algebra in 9th grade and Monica was very adamant about this. Their focus is on social skills primarily.
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Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| OP here, thanks guys, this is disappointing but more information is always better. PP who toured Ivymount MAP, can you share any other details about the academics there? 9 kids and 7 teachers-does that mean each kid has an individualized curriculum? Did they mention how long kids generally stay there and how successful they are at transitioning back to mainstream schools? If you don't mind. |
Anonymous
No. The other peoples stand for in the periphery. They are therapists, individual aids, etc. The class is taught by the main teacher and everyone was learning the same thing. When we observed it was reading comprehension. Wasn't impressed. |
Anonymous
| Some kids stay for a year or two but many kids stay there through HS. They did talk about one young man who was leaving for hs? since he seemed ready to be mainstreamed and needed more challenges in math. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| If you are interested in MAP, I would strongly suggest you go see for yourself. |
Anonymous
Have to add, we were thinking about moving our kid and try for funding - an arduous process so it was good to observe first. We are going to try to stay at our current school. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but MAP is a hike for a lot of people in the DC area. If someone can rule it out for their kid based on someone else's information, it saves everyone a lot of time (including the people at MAP). There is very little publicly-available information on this type of school. |
Anonymous
| So, the answer to OP's question is: nowhere? |