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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sympathetic, OP. It is hard to make the leap from preschool to "real school" after having hoped for years that all your efforts and therapy would make mainstream school work out. For me, there was something psychological about needing therapy and help in the preschool years that felt much more like a social stigma for K and beyond. I guess b/c so many people say "He'll grow outta of it!"[/quote]

Mainstream public school can work out for kids with ASD - mainstream privates are a different animal.[/quote]

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[b]I was in love with the private school that my kid with ASD attended. (He wasn't DX'd yet.) When he started having problems in kindergarten, they had no idea what to do with him.  When we got the DX, they still didn't know what to do. We gave them carte blanche access to our psychologist and they didn't use it at all.  They didn't talk to her. They didn't want to meet with her. They didn't take any of the steps she recommended.  They were completely over-whelmed about what to do with this kid.[/b]

We moved DS to a public school. He was placed in a mainstream classroom with an IEP and push-in and pull-out support services. He did very well there, and with support, he did better and better. He is now in a mainstream middle school and has very limited support. (He meets with the school social worker once a week and meets with his ST once a week.)

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We had the exact same experience with our pre-diagnosis mainstream private. We then moved to SN private and the difference was extraordinary.[/quote]

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