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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PPs with social skill support on IEPs, what school systems? How many appeals did it take?  Did you all need consultants or lawyers?[/quote]

I'm the pp with the first grader.  We are at a DC charter and had zero issues with getting an IEP in preK.  The school eval and all our private evaluations gave a diagnosis of Asperger's/ASD.  DC is above grade level in all subjects and never had behavior issues/disruptive. Nor have we ever been told that we will lose the IEP b/c DS did not need "academic help".

No appeals were needed but we are both lawyers (nothing to do with Sp Ed) and we had DS's developmental pediatrician, Dr
Shapiro, and an educational consultant, Rich Weinfeld, involved in the IEP process from the very beginning.

One of the primary reasons Asperger's was included in ASD in the DSM-5 was to prevent what you are going through, OP. Some states like California and Wisconsin did not automatically provide kids with AS with IEPs.  Now that AS is no longer a stand alone diagnosis but included in ASD, school systems are suppose to provide supports and services like all other kids who are on the spectrum.[/quote]

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