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[quote=Anonymous]My school's special ed coordinator was the first to tell me about them (and they are usually referred to as high-functioning autism classes, although I hate that terminology). If you look up the school information in the DCPS report card, you'll see CES listed and then CES Autism 1 and 2 for those three schools. Of course the website has no information beyond that, probably because there are far more children who would benefit from the program than there are spaces for them.

Kids only qualify for the grade-level autism program if they're in general ed with supports, which means that they aren't subject to the placement process that DCPS uses for kids in self-contained classrooms. This opens up a loophole, because so long as your kid has under 20 hours of services a week, they can attend whichever DCPS school they lottery into.

Our logic is that if my child lotteries into one of these schools with an IEP that was written to mimic the program that the school provides, the school must both enroll him and honor his IEP. It's immaterial to me whether that means that they officially bring him into the program or simply provide appropriate supports in an environment where both special ed and general ed staff are attuned to the needs of autistic kids who can learn on their grade level. In either case, he's in a far better environment than his current school can provide.[/quote]

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