Reply to Stay in DCPS or ABA full time for 4 year old?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Stay in DCPS or ABA full time for 4 year old?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]We have an autistic almost four year old who spent last year in prek3 in DCPS with an IEP.  She is also receiving floortime method developmental therapy OT and ST privately but it is about six hours per week or less.  We think she needs more support - she doesn’t really participate with the class, does a lot of spacing out and lying on the floor, does not speak to peers.  Does not have major behavioral issues in classroom like aggression or tantrums.  She seems to like school and has good relationships with the teachers but she is so far from K ready.  We have her enrolled for prek4 in DCPS next year but wonder now if we need to pull her out for a full time ABA or other specialized program instead.

We have done a lot of reading on these forums and are not opposed to ABA but have not tried it as her diagnosing psychologist suggested floortime first. It seems a lot of parents had success with ABA support in classroom or part time with school.  Her school previously said no third party providers - would it be worth asking again or is DCPS very inflexible on this?  If we can’t do in gen ed classroom support therapy, is a full time program appropriate for a child with her issues (mostly the spacing out, not attending to class activities, failure to interact socially with peers)?  Recommendations for suitable programs that would take BCBS FEP? Appreciate any insights or advice.  We are located on the DC silver spring border in DC so Maryland options are feasible for us especially silver spring.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics