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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thanks for all these responses and helpful to hear different perspectives.  We are concerned primarily with ability to engage in basic classroom activities like even attending long enough to a story or lesson without spacing out/disengaging, not completing takes or transitioning to activities with the group, and social skills with peers.  Less concerned about the academics which we think she has been able to acquire at developmentally appropriate rate between school and home.

We have already advocated for additional services with the DCPS IEP and understand she is getting as much as she qualifies for (3 hours sped teacher, 2 hours a month speech, 4 hours a month OT).  We are supplementing with the private therapies in Floortime model but it is hard to fit this all in if she is in school full time.  So it sounds like it would be hard to add ABA privately at home in sufficient hours to help her if we kept her at DCPS.  If they won’t let us have push-in support from a therapist in the gen ed classroom, would a full-time ABA center based model be best?  Or put her in a private daycare that allows push-in ABA or other therapist support in the classroom?  It would hurt to have to pay out of pocket for daycare vs an ABA center that (I think?) could be covered by insurance, but I also wonder whether a full-time ABA center model would be right for her profile since she doesn’t have significant disruptive behaviors, and we don’t want her to pick that up there.  [/quote]

At 3 years old and never had ABA before I’d consider home based services (at least to start) over clinic/center model; however, this decision really comes down to assessments and needs and resources, for your child and family. So I do think you’re getting ahead of yourself trying to plan everything, just start with a behavioral evaluation, get an ABLLS-R & other assessments, and then discuss your options. When inquiring about a provider I would look for one that has home based services as an option or home based and clinic based. I would avoid anywhere that only offers clinic based at 3 years old.

If you choose DCPS plus ABA you could realistically get 2-3 hours per day plus 3-6 hours per day on weekends. However, it’s really best done this way for an established ABA program. You need a good 3-6 months to get a full home based ABA program running smoothly. It’s a lot of work up front and not something I’d recommend doing while also going to school. Now for K, once you have a year or 2 of home based, you might consider also having them also come a couple days a week after school or on the weekends. There’s many benefits to doing both, but for now though I’d pick one, either DCPS or ABA. Start with that behavioral assessment and then do what works best for you. [/quote]

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