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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a current parent and I don't want to speak for the school, but this is how I see it. Sycamore is warm, accepting, supportive, knowledgeable and organized but NOT a special needs school. So, it is not so much what specific challenge profile the school is willing to accept as how much specialized instruction your child needs. I think the school will accommodate and support a wide variety of profiles but cannot take the place of a school like Lab or Siena for a child who needs specialized instruction in order to acquire certain skills.

I say this partly based on my experience, and from observing kids (the children of friends and my child's classmates) who have either loved the school, opted not to come and chosen more specialized options, or attended only briefly. There are plenty of kids with language-based learning differences for example, but (from my limited observation) they are not at the stage of their development where they need the kind of full-time instruction they would get at one of aforementioned schools.

I realize that what I wrote could be roughly translated as 504 vs IEP and I am sure that is not really the breakdown. The school definitely specializes in working on executive functions and I think is exceptionally strong for kids with anxiety who might not be able to succeed elsewhere. Though I don't ever hear it promoted this way, in my observation of several kids, Sycamore is also great place for 2E kids.[/quote]

Same poster. Realize that I did not address the specific ASD question. My assumption is that children with ASD attend the school and, again, that acceptance and success there depends on what level of intervention your child needs. I also think the school is working well for kids who do not have any diagnosis but would be lost in our big public middle and high schools. So, lots and lots of profiles.[/quote]

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