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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's common for the School IEP team and the district autism unit to have disagreement on placement. If your school is new to the home school model, the gen ed and sped teachers might need more training from the district to provide support for most types of kids. Unless your child is failing miserably in the home school model, it's going to be difficult to get into the Asperger program. You can try to hire an advocate and outside professionals to observe your child at school, wrote a report and attend the meeting. But that's going to cost a lot of money with slight chance of success.
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This is exactly right. The school team doesn't work in the Autism program, so while they think more supports than they can provide are needed, the Asperger Program may not be the best fit. The people from the program know best what the program is like and what they can provide. Also, once an Autism consult is done, the unit can provide consultation to the home school regarding individual children and can provide resources so the school can implement strategies and procedures that may be more effective. The home school only knows that they are beyond their depth and need help, the specific programs, and central office, are in the best position to determine what placement would best be able to provide that. So, just because everyone on your home school team believes the Asperger Program is necessary, doesn't mean that they are right. They are actually speaking about something that they have no direct experience with.[/quote]

Except this is not what they told OP.  The autism program said her kid needs too much support to be in the Asperger's program, so they left her in general ed?  How can general ed handle her if the Asperger's program can't?  [/quote]

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