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[quote=Anonymous]Heeeeeey, OP you're moving from Austin?  I was born and raised in Austin!  w00t!  I know this isn't really what you asked, but I've found the Silver Spring/Takoma Park areas to be culturally kind of Austin-like.  But more to what you were actually asking about, I wanted to chime in on this...

[quote=Anonymous]I would just avoid schools with high social-economic needs. Because at a school where lots of kids are coming from serious poverty, absentee parents, etc., your kids needs will seem insignificant and won’t get a lot of atttensjon plus the chaos level tends to be higher in those schools, which can be challenging for kids with ASD. 
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There's some truth to this, but I wouldn't quite go this far.  We're in a high poverty elementary school, and we are having to really push to get an IEP for our autistic kid, even with dropping grades.  Based on what I've heard from parents in other parts of the county, though, I think this may not just be a high-poverty-area thing.

What I [i]will[/i] say, is that because the teachers at our school are so used to handling students with very real, very diverse, and often not formally identified needs (poverty, trauma, undiagnosed learning differences, etc.) the teachers have been really fantastic about giving our kid accommodations just like...organically on the fly without our really having to ask.  And the teachers are also very open to and good about implementing the accommodations we've requested thus far.  Culturally and socially we've hit the jackpot!  The kids at the school have been so accepting of our autistic kid.  They have great friends and aren't being bullied.  It's only once we get to the administrative/bureaucratic level that's a bit more removed from the kids in the classroom with the IEP process that things get a little stickier.[/quote]

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