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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We reached crisis towards the end of K and ended up pulling DS out of school at the beginning of May when he started hurting himself and threatening to kill himself.  It took DS about 6 weeks to stabilize.

What the school is doing right now with multiple classrooms a day absolutely has to stop.  That's doing nothing but making the problem worse.  They need to do an FBA (which may or may not be ultimately useful) and start the process for an IEP.  In our county, there is a short term therapeutic setting for kids in crisis but your county may not have something like that.  I wouldn't discard the idea of pulling DS out of school for a month, though.  Allowing him to stabilize is completely different than supporting his anxiety.  First graders don't act like this when they're not in crisis.

Then the school needs to come up with a placement where your DC is able to access the curriculum.  That might be an ED placement.  ED was something I was really scared of for DS but retrospectively, the placement you want is the one that allows your DC to enjoy going to school, regardless of what that placement is called.

Regarding medication, we've been through several and DS is now on a mood stabilizer.  Like PP's DC, this basically gets DS to a place where he's able to access the CBT techniques that he knows cognitively.  DS is 10yo now and has been diagnosed with ASD, ADHD, and anxiety but K/1st were absolutely the hardest years which we got a handle on things.

Good luck.

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OP here. I will respond to other PP questions when I have more time. What is an [b]ED placement?[/b][/quote]

Emotional Disability or Disorder[/quote]

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