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[quote=Anonymous]OP - i have a child similar to yours. We left MCPS for a private school because mainstreaming here in MCPS basically means very, very limited support. So, unless your child has severe impacts -- and cannot be mainstreamed -- you will get minimal support. Especially for K. MCPS is notorious for letting K kids sink or swim and dealing with it later.

For K, your options will be:

a) mainstream with 1 teacher to 24-28 kids per class. Bethesda is probably closer to 28 kids for mainstream.

b) Learning and Academic Disabilities (LAD) program -- this is completely mainstream but the keep the ratios down a bit 1:18-20. This will most likely not be your homeschool and your child would be entitled to bus service.

c) Learning Center - but typically Learning Centers are for kids with more academic rather than social/pragmatic delays.

OT and Speech services can be added to the mix for any of those settings.

So... get an ed consultant NOW. Do not wait if you are intent upon MCPS for your K child.

Here is a good parent organization: http://www.xminds.org

They have a really good section on the programming available for spectrum kids.

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