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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They will be cautious. Depends on a lot of other factors and what schools you are targetting.

My very bright kid with an IEP for speech articulation and expressive language support was rejected at every private school we applied to for middle school except Lowell (McLean, Burke, Field, St. Andrews). Lowell accepted him only on the condition we would hire an outside tutor to support his writing. This was 3 years ago.

Maybe we aimed for the wrong schools or maybe they just didn't know whether they could support him. Or maybe they all had tons of applicants that year and it was a long shot regardless.

In retrospect I believed we disclosed too much, probably. Upon learning of the IEP they asked for a copy of his full neuropsychological testing, which shows some areas of amazing strength and also weaknesses in processing speed and working memory.

In the end, we stuck with public and he's doing great.

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Wow, this is disappointing to read.  These are the schools frequently mentioned on DCUM as being open to bright kids who need some kind of supports. What kind of supports, specifically, does your child receive through his/her IEP?  I am asking only because we have a child with a similar diagnosis and those schools were among those we planned to target.

It is great to hear that your child is thriving in public! Which school system?[/quote]

Son is now in a DC charter school and he'd been in a charter school before.

It was a few years ago - and things always vary year to year.

His school IEP called back then was for 2 hrs per week with an SLP,  1 hr per week with an OT and 1 hour a week with a learning specialist to work on writing. It wasn't a lot.

But his neuropsych is unusual - eg he is in the top 99% for memory but just 5% for processing speech. If we were to graph all of his subtests it would look like a very erratic EKG.

I will tell you that one of my son's elementary school classmates, who has ADHD, dyslexia and dysgraphia, was accepted at 2 of the mainstream private schools that rejected my son. So it could have as simple as they weren't going to take 2  'quirky kids from same city school that admissions cycle). That child's parents were required to provide LOTS of supports (tutors) outside of school. Despite a 3.7 GPA hat student was counselled out after 8th (the school felt he needed too many accommodations and they 'weren't a SN school." 
A friend send her daughter with a math disability and ADHD to Green Acres for middle school and it was a great experience. So there are options but in my experience it was all pretty random.

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