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[quote=Anonymous]OP - it's my understanding that only the most severe cases of disability qualify for private placement within FCPS.  In most cases you have to litigate.  The process will take years.  It will tear up your family. The litigation expenses will be immense and the district's fierce lawyers will make mincemeat of yours if yours doesn't know what he or she is doing. I've never heard of a 2e (ADHD + HFA) receiving private placement money.  If I had, I would have fought for it for my two kids.

That said, I know of one private placement but the poor child had had a series of strokes and ten surgeries.   He is taken by private bus to a school that helps children with severe handicaps. It's a school I had never heard of before so can't offer a name.

Commonwealth is a college prep school for kids with ADHD and dyslexia.  It once had one private placement from D.C. but that was for profound dyslexia which DCPS couldn't handle.  It's not licensed for HFA so even if you were to get a private placement, your child would not be sent to Commonwealth - he would be sent somewhere else.  It's very rare for any of the SN schools you read about on this board to receive private placements.  The type of schools that the private placements are sent to are equipped to handle severe physical and mental handicaps, with perhaps the exception of Ivymont, mentioned above, which handles autism students.  Good luck![/quote]

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