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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m going to disagree with most of the posters.  Public schools have the staff to actually support your kids and are legally required to. In Covid times, many private schools will not allow an outside therapist in. Our kid is at Janney and we’ve been really happy. [/quote]

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Our son was diagnosed as autistic in PK3 in our DC Charter and I found the school strongly supported the evaluation and getting our son an IEP - in fact they reached out to us to request we evaluate him, which we did through the school. He was diagnosed as likely autistic (the evaluation did not explicitly diagnose autism but indicated high likelihood of autism) and he qualified for extensive services, PT and speech therapy. He gradually improved year by year and by age 6 he graduated from his IEP and was determined to not have autism. I have no explanation other than 1) he is very shy and was noncooperative with the evaluations and 2) he had a number of motor skill delays that likely contributed to the diagnosis - late walker, late talker, etc. He absolutely benefited from all the services. We never had to argue for them. In fact the school regularly advocated to increase services. He repeated PK3 and I think was the first student at the school held back at this age. Then in each year he did progressively better. By Kindergarten (his 4th year of school) his teacher said he functioned as well as children without IEPs, and at age 6 he graduated from it.

He’s now 10 and does really well in school and is still overall very shy with new activities, but once comfortable does well socially, plays sports/swims and has good friends. No explanation for changes and issues with early development but we got a ton of support easily from his public charter school and supplemented with private services and gradually he was able to develop on track and excel.[/quote]

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