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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m looking for a private school for my five-year-old son who will be entering kindergarten next year and is struggling with anxiety, attention and impulse control issues. We are looking for a school that is nurturing, has low student-teacher ratios, and does skill-building in emotion regulation, impulse control, and executive functioning. My son is susceptible to peer influence, [b]so ideally we’d have a school with a blend of students with his profile and “neurotypical” children as role models.[/b] Schools in Fairfax Co. would be ideal, but any ideas are welcomed. We will commute for the right fit. Thanks for your help![/quote]

As far as I know, there is no private school in the DC area that specializes in services to kids with special needs and routinely enrolls NT students. If you want that, you have to go public. Otherwise, your choices are muddling through with a mainstream private (if the issues are minor enough) or go to a SN private with the understanding that [b]all kids have different strengths and weaknesses, and so even a SN child may be a role model in some aspects to your child, while your child will be a role model in other aspects.
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Maddux works with kids with that profile, but the devil is in the details, especially how impulse control manifests.[/quote]

You raise an excellent point and I shouldn't have used NT in my original post. What I am looking for is exactly what you describe, other kids with different strengths and weaknesses than my son to serve as role models.[/quote]

I'm 21:26, and Maddux provided that for our child. However, just something to think about -- schools tend to do only one thing well. So, for example, a school that specializes in language-based learning disorders might not have staff that have extensive training in building social skills, and vice versa. Of course there is overlap and so teachers will be able to handle some things, but in general, the best SN schools tend to focus on one particular population and have highly specialized and experienced staff regarding that issue.

So the bigger the range of issues the more your child has a range of role models, but the more difficulty the teachers might have in serving everyone appropriately. Just something to think about, based on the two different SN schools we've been in.[/quote]

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