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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a college student with ASD. The early years in school were so hard! My heart goes out to you all.

I doubt they will move him to a self-contained classroom (the pp has it exactly right, the problem is schools give too few supports, not too many) but if for some reason it became an option, I would urge you to open your mind to considering it. Go visit. Kids can be in self-contained and later move to gen ed (I have a friend whose very bright child is doing well in high school in honors after spending elementary years in a self-contained class). It doesn't mean the kid will always be in self-contained. My experience is that when a classroom isn't working for a child it has a traumatic effect on the child, and honestly it is very hard on the parents too. [/quote]

Was your child in a self-contained classroom? The usual problem I've heard is that it can be very difficult to get moved out of a self-contained classroom, in part because they typically are far behind the curriculum in the general education classrooms. How did you make that transition back to gen ed?[/quote]

No, my friend's child (same age) was. We were in different districts. He transitioned back to gen ed when he went to middle school. He has done fine academically since.  Both our kids were academically strong - the problem was with everything else. I was 100% opposed to the idea of self contained (though we were not offered it) but in retrospect I think that was short sighted. Her child had a better elementary experience in the end. My child ended up going to a small private school which was an OK place for him but had some drawbacks too.[/quote]

Do you know how they made up for the difference in curriculum when they transitioned to middle school?  Current self-contained programs are almost exclusively below-grade-level, at least in MCPS. Even the ones that are officially at-grade-level don't cover the full curriculum.[/quote]

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