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OP - You do not indicate what your daughter's cognitive skill levels are and what her need for related therapies in terms of her physical limitations are.  I would not necessarily rule out St. Coletta School, especially if you would like to relocate to the city proper.  The school is very modern, fully accessible and has all the therapies right at hand.  I would at least visit the school and talk to the principal about what you would like to see in your daughter's educational plan.  While St. Coletta's does not have a regular education curriculum, it definitely has a curriculum which is child centered and which would not mean a young child seated in her wheel chair all day long.  There is a fully accessible playground, spacious classrooms, wonderful adaptive equipment and space to use them such as standers, bean bag chairs, mats etc.

While there  should be a strong literacy basis to education, especially in the younger grades to see what students might be able to learn since they do have the speech therapists and assistive technology piece there. It might be a good school base to start out in and to see how your daughter responds to the various therapies which are right there all the time including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and adaptive PE.  She is still very young and I think a key piece would be to see which school setting could give her the best communication related therapy - including using technology because she needs to learn to communicate and probably more than what a regular public school setting will offer here.  If you request a literacy component in her IEP from the beginning, you would be seeing that she is working on the key skill in learning.  (Math facts could wait a year or so.)

One of our daughters worked there as a therapist a while back and she loved the children she worked with, but I will admit the lack of an educational curriculum - reading especially bothered her.  A program with a functional skills focus should have this as many students can learn to read over time and even basic reading skills spell the difference between a job later on or not.

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