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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have an autistic almost four year old who spent last year in prek3 in DCPS with an IEP.  She is also receiving floortime method developmental therapy OT and ST privately but it is about six hours per week or less.  We think she needs more support - she doesn’t really participate with the class, does a lot of spacing out and lying on the floor, does not speak to peers.  Does not have major behavioral issues in classroom like aggression or tantrums.  She seems to like school and has good relationships with the teachers but she is so far from K ready.  We have her enrolled for prek4 in DCPS next year but wonder now if we need to pull her out for a full time ABA or other specialized program instead.

We have done a lot of reading on these forums and are not opposed to ABA but have not tried it as her diagnosing psychologist suggested floortime first. It seems a lot of parents had success with ABA support in classroom or part time with school.  Her school previously said no third party providers - would it be worth asking again or is DCPS very inflexible on this?  If we can’t do in gen ed classroom support therapy, is a full time program appropriate for a child with her issues (mostly the spacing out, not attending to class activities, failure to interact socially with peers)?  Recommendations for suitable programs that would take BCBS FEP? Appreciate any insights or advice.  We are located on the DC silver spring border in DC so Maryland options are feasible for us especially silver spring.  [/quote]

You need to figure out what your child's are.

I agree with the poster who suggested testing.

My first big question for you is how is your child’s receptive language?  That's the cornerstone piece.

Ds is 23 now, and I got all thus bad advice on what to do but no real answers until  we found out his nonverbal IQ was typical, but he had the receptive language in the bottom percentiles when he was entering K.

We skipped ABA.[/quote]

What setting was he in for K and what supports did he get? [/quote]

OP again - so our daughter has had various assessments and evaluations including through DCPS, her Floortime model therapy provider, and the clinical psych who diagnosed and sees her for follow ups.  Her last speech evaluation to get speech added to her IEP said her receptive language was good but expressive needed a lot of work.  What other assessments should we be asking for?  Or is it just these she needs an evaluation specifically on ABA model?   Maybe I just do not know the proper nomenclature for what she needs.

We are a little worried that at-home only ABA may not help sufficiently with her social skills and ability to be with a group classroom environment.  She currently already has 1:1 Floortime developmental therapy in the home on weekends, though I understand that is not structured like ABA is.  I think she would struggle with a 1:1 full time approach and I worry she would miss out on social developments.  She did seem to enjoy being around the other kids even if she does not yet understand how to truly engage with them.  Hence the interest in center-based preschool/daycare like environment if we cannot get DCPS to agree to a hybrid.  We have asked DCPS to add more to her IEP and had a lot of difficulty even getting them to add speech even though it was recommended in her medical clinical report, so it seems it would be an uphill battle to get anything more than what is on her plan if we want her in a gen ed classroom. [/quote]

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