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[quote=Anonymous]What do you mean by minimally verbal? It could help to have a sense.

Our ASD DC who is about to transition to K pretty verbal (though I wouldn’t say DC’s at the level where you’d consider them to be more of the little professor precocious type). DC is conversational with peers and teachers, but it is definitely a bit atypical.

I did a lot of looking in NoVa where we are—most mainstream privates (maybe all?) wouldn’t accept them even though DC doesn’t have challenging behaviors. Some may consider it with an aide, but I was so worried my DC wouldn’t be embraced and would always be at risk of being counseled out. We ruled out Diener and Maddux for being too expensive and too far.

It was pretty slim from there. Even specialty schools for language disabilities like Oakwood say they won’t accept ASD. I looked at Potomac Crescent but they wouldn’t allow outside support and the 2 days of outdoor classroom wouldn’t work well for my child. It seemed to me your kid would have to be pretty verbal to attend.

That left us Newton in Sterling and Linder Academy in Alexandria. Linder had very much a start up vibe and isn’t accredited. Facility was beautiful, and they let you bring your own therapists in which is a pro for many of the families we spoke with who felt like there just aren’t a lot of options for ASD kids who have the ability to access gen ed curriculum but who public school wouldn’t be a good fit. Kids seemed happy, class size is small, but the lower grades were almost 100% boys.

We ended up going with Newton, Newton had us do a visit just me and spouse to get a sense of school and whether it would be right for our child. Then after applying they had us do a 2 day visit to make sure DC was the right fit. We were so impressed with the school and the HOS. I would agree with the PP who said minimally verbal may not be the right fit—but encourage you to reach out to them to see as they have been very transparent with us every step of the way.[/quote]

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