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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer your question, two schools to tour would be maddux and harbor. Maddux offers support in speech and ot as part of their program, has small classes and is very structured. Harbor does not offer any support, but has small class sizes, uses many best teaching practices many parents would want to see in any classroom and is very nurturing.

Seeing the difference may help you clarify your vision for what your child needs. And then if you really like either or both, you need to decide if you can make the commute work for your family. [/quote]

And McLean is somewhere in between Maddux and Harbor in terms of the support it offers.

But a developmental pediatrician and/or psychologist can look holistically at your child and say "in my experience, children like your child have generally done well at X school but have not done well at Y school." You are right, of course, that you don't know whether a school will work for your particular kid until you try it, but as unique as he is, there are kids who are somewhat like him out there, and a good professional can give you guidance based on that.[/quote]

I wouldn't get your hopes up about this. We have seen several developmental peds, psychologists and psychiatrists and all of them were clueless about schools.[/quote]

Ours was a little too over involved with his school recommendations...  Nevertheless, OP needs to get her child evaluated.  Sounds like he needs an IEP if in public or needs a SN school.[/quote]

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