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[quote=Anonymous]DD is 7 and has low support needs autism. She has an IEP but doesn’t need a lot in terms of services. She needs a lot of accommodations for sensory needs and attention. She also needs a kind, gentle, nurturing teacher to help her with emotional regulation. That’s been the hardest part. Even if I pick a good school system and good school, I can’t control from year to year whether the teacher she gets will be warm and understanding, which helps her with emotional regulation, or will be strict and rigid.

Her therapist suggested I explore finding other schools for her, just to know what’s out there, but I don’t know how to do that. What she needs is a warm teacher and understanding admin. She needs social-emotional learning infused into the classroom so that when she has a conflict, the teacher can help her understand what happened. She doesn’t really need a separate social skills class, because that hasn’t been helpful anyway. She basically needs preschool! But for second grade and the rest of elementary school. And she’s academically gifted.

I don’t think I can afford a private school, but even if I could, I don’t think they would accept her, because she yells when she gets upset. I think we’d get kicked out.

Teachers at her current public school keep using behavioral modification techniques like prizes for certain behaviors, and they are behaviors that she is not capable of doing, like “sitting still in your seat.” To their credit, they have been willing to modify the behavior chart once I’ve spoken to them, but how do I find a school that understands that an autistic child might not be able to do the things on the behavior chart? I feel like this shouldn’t be news to them. We are in APS.

Help please.[/quote]

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