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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of years ago we move from Howard County to the San Francisco area (Mountain View).  My son was 4 and doing well when we moved and subsequently had been diagnosed with Severe ADHD/ASD and he’s degrading so badly in 1st grade after improvements over the summer with ADHD meds that I’m scared something else scary is happening. We started K with no IEP, got a private dx, got an IEP with a lot of supports (1:1 aide, OT, Speech) and we are now transitioning to Special Day Class to see what can be done behaviorally (behavior not academics were the concern though we are now seeing academic regression as well as behavioral so who knows.  He’s horrible at testing so the only delay he has on record is expressive speech).  He’s not violent; his behavior issues are avoidance and utter lack of executive functioning. We pray the SDC will make a dent or that we get a more accurate dx (which would be probably something scary as it would involve late dev regression).

At this point we have no idea where this shit show is heading. I thought we hit the bottom in K before medication but I was wrong. Due to the current uncertainty we are thinking of relocating back to MD bc the medical options are good, buying a house on one salary would be feasible and I have support in the area.  Any experiences with HoCo or MoCo on how they are equipped to handle something like this?   I’d also be interested in Reston bc my current employer which has awesome benefits has a satellite office there; otherwise I’d probably return to my previous employer in MD

TIA and sorry about the ramble.  This has been a waking nightmare. Earliest we’d move would be this summer (unless we see something miraculous happed with the new school). [/quote]

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