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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve worked in a private school that did not discriminate against ASD kids. We had some challenges. One of them was staffing. Despite having learning specialists in each classroom, paraeducators with the younger kids, and a school counselor, we did not have behaviorists. When we encountered school refusal, work refusal, disruptive stims, eloping, or emotional outbursts, we didn’t have good programs to help support children in those situations. We could only refer to outside service providers, and families did not always want to take those referrals. We also had a lot of students with competing needs. Some of our ASD kids were louder—due to trouble modulating voices, having noise-making stims, etc. At the same time, some of our ASD students were very sensitive to noise, even to the point of wearing hearing protection. Even with small classroom sizes, we were never successful in accommodating every student’s needs around ambient noise.

Often we would have ASD students who would work independently and not need behavioral support. The trouble is that it is so hard for admissions teams to know which child will fall into which group, especially as behavior changes over time and with development. We also had a lot of fraught conversations with already enrolled families whose children could not be accommodated well with the school’s existing resources. When families are counseled out, it creates a lot of ill will that schools wish to avoid.[/quote]

Lots of kids with ADHD have the same issues you mention -- can be loud, disruptive, etc. Yet schools never have blanket rules against accepting students with ADHD and seem to be able to figure out which students they can serve.[/quote]

ASD needs a totally different teaching curriculum. The way they process information is completely different. Especially in the early years. ADHD is not as prevalent as it’s actually diagnosed, it usually just means they need a bit more attention to stay on track. ASD is next level.[/quote]

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