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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again.  After responding to the commenter, I googled about this issue.  The overwhelming consensus is that immersion programs work for kids with special ed needs and that they perform as well as they would have had they gone to a non-immersion school.

Among the many links is a doctoral thesis by the principal at Key Immersion School in Arlington.

http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/965/Marjorie_L_Myers_Dissertation.pdf[/quote]

PP: Severe ADHD, not ld, mild adhd. I'm talking severe adhd.....[/quote]

And again, there is no difference in outcomes.  The PhD thesis above includes kids with ADHD.  I'm curious as to why you think a child with severe ADHD would have a harder time in an immersion program than in an English-only one.  The strategies for helping a child with ADHD learn are the same, whether in one or two languages.  There are many other special needs kids who I would imagine might have a harder time than a child with severe ADHD.  Again, the consensus out there among educators familiar with this issue is that kids in immersion schools and who get special ed services -- including those who qualify due to ADHD -- will do at least as well as the same kids who've been in an English-only program.

Interestingly, there is one feature of DS' immersion school that may benefit him in middle school - the kids switch classes A LOT.  There is a teacher for English subjects, one for Spanish subjects, another Spanish-speaking teacher (and room) for science, plus specials (music, art, PE).  One thing I've gotten used in reading DCUM is seeing parents fret about their children suddenly having to navigate many different classrooms and teachers in middle school.  DS, with LDs, ADHD, and anxiety, has been doing this since K.

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