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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has anxiety/ADHD/ASD/LD so there is a lot going on and our experience might not applicable to you.

Before the school year, we went to every open house, every tour, etc. We requested his schedule a couple of days early, had a meeting with the counselor and assistant principal who took us on another tour when we walked through his classrooms and made sure he knew exactly where to go. We also wrote a long introductory email for all his teachers and tried to establish relationships with all of them.

In terms of accommodations and services, he’s in a social skills homeroom and an executive skills class. The rest of his classes are cotaught. He has a flash pass for the counselor’s office, which is especially good when dealing with sensory overload. That is in addition to the usual testing accommodations and the ones for learning disabilities.

The transition has gone far smoother than I thought it would, although there have been ups and downs. Socially, I am not sure how things are going. He has kids he talks to, but not friends he does stuff with outside of school. He’s seemingly content with the social side, so we don’t push.

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