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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To get Lab School paid for by DC is a multi year process.

If you think now that your child is a good candidate for the school - you will have lost at least 3 years by the time you get around to having DC pay for it.

Question - what is your child's educational profile - what do you hope Lab will provide?   
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He has a receptive language disorder.  He’s currently in a private SN preschool setting and it meets his needs perfectly. He’s improved leaps and bounds since having a special educator to help build his language skills. But he learns slowly. He starts K in 2020.  I can’t imagine him being able to keep pace in a regular ed setting without substantial assistance.  [/quote]

If he doesn't have a formal diagnosis, get one.  File for whatever the APS equivalent of the Local Screening Committee meeting is part of the way through the 19-20 school year.  The process takes months, start no later than January.  Figure out what kind of services and accommodations they are able to offer before you throw public school out as an option.  Not all schools are terrible.  Ours is, but I have a friend with a kid with nearly the same issues at another public school, and the accomodations for her son are night and day from what we received.  Some public schools do it right.  My friend's kid qualified for FCPS AAP without any parent intervention (they declined to keep him at base school where they were happy with services versus unknown), but he's got an IEP and BIP and is doing great with local Level III services.[/quote]

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