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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there sufficient interest in a children/young adults with special needs forum?  We are wrestling with first SN kid in college and we learned a LOT that I can share about how to approach the college years.  Also, we are coming to terms with the fact that DC may never be able to be self-sufficient so will have to be looking at group homes or a guardianship for after we are gone.  Discussions of this sort rarely seem to get into the SN category.  Just a thought.[/quote]

[b]I hope that you will stay in the regular forum, perhaps for selfish reasons. As my child grows older I find more posts about young adults with SN more and more relevant timely and useful. I bookmark and re-read them.[/quote][/b]

I probably will - I have a few more years to go with this.  But I have been surprised by how few posters have asked college questons for SN.  Or vocational training, or group housing.  If we want our SN kids to turn out like Temple Grandin, and be completely self-sufficient, some of us have a long way to go.  Maybe those parents have found other online support groups.  Maybe only the younger set visits this forum.  But I've been surprised to see that question and comments seem to go only up through the "do I need an IEP for high school" level and then die off.  I don't know why.  Most of the parents who have SN kids in college are not the standard demographic of this website.
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I've seen a few threads about college kids with special needs in the College forum. I'm not sure that forum would meet your needs, because I haven't seen a lot of relevant posts there and it's also not necessarily a place where you immediately go to look. If you do a search of that forum you can probably find the threads on college students with special needs.[/quote]

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