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[quote=Anonymous]Help please with views, if your kid goes to those schools! Here’s some detail -my DC was diagnosed late (long waiting lists at Childrens national for a neurospych, perhaps my reluctance to admit the problem), so DC ended up being sent to SESES for “emotional disability” (DC used to hit). We now have an autism/ ADHD diagnosis, with anxiety to boot, caused by the overzealous disciplining at SESES (again I blame myself, they were just doing their job, they are not geared to autistic children).  Unfortunately, at SESES DC picked up a bunch of bad habits like foul language and lying which we are still working on, and he became completely intolerant to sitting in a classroom (kept eloping). On the positive side, we have put hitting behind us. More recently, we are on meds, which have made DC a calm child (!). Last month, CIEP approved funding for non-public, and we just got rejected from the Lourie Center and Ivymount (they’re worried about needing 1:1 aide to keep DC in class), and we are still waiting to hear from KKI and Sheppard Pratt. Which one would you choose, or if you think both are inappropriate, would you homeschool? DC tests within the official range for gifted children on standardized tests (e.g. DIBELS of 243 this year, MAP-M in the top 1 percentile in K), but DC’s working memory and processing speed are at the 5th percentile. More important than academics (which I can always supplement on), DC has low self-confidence and feelings of failure, and poor social skills which frustrates DC a lot. So KKI, Sheppard Pratt, homeschool, or another school - and if so, which?[/quote]

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