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[quote=Anonymous]You may also want to reconsider public school. Yes, the classes are large, but you can have an asessment meeting the year before the school starts, and have an IEP in place well before the start of the school year. The county has more resources and more specialists  to deal with any LD than any schools, barring a specialized one.

One exception still is ADHD, where a Montessori school may still be a better choice for a child without any other LD. It's just structured better for how ADHD kids engage.

I don;t know nearly enough about the ASD spectrum, but I would at least go to your local school and request a conversation with their Special Ed coordinator. They will start the process from there. It takes one meeting to qualify for an action plan, and another one (or more) to set the actual plan to your satisfaction. One thing you can ask for is a special aide dedicated just to your child.

For our own ADHD child, we felt that  the risks were too great in private school, that she would not get the right kind of attention. She would have fit an excellent music and gifted ed school, but we saw discipline in action and that scared us away. Make sure you understand each school's philosophy on discipline, because that will be used for directing your child whenever he messes up. Any child *will* mess up, but a child with some LD may be ore vulnerable to adult misbehavior (yelling, shaming, lecturing for 20 minutes). So the trick is to make sure he's surrounded by adults that make those slips safe and a potential for learning.

Or, have him stay for the K year in a preK/K program, where he gets an extra chance to mature. Most Montessori programs include K. then re-evaluate for 1st grade whether he should enter K or 1st grade in the school of your choice.[/quote]

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