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[quote=Anonymous]Your daughter sounds a LOT like my son. Best way to describe my son is moderate autism. His responses to questions sound very similar to your child. I attended the Kindergarten meeting for him yesterday.

MCPS explained to me that placement depends many factors but mainly the # of hours of services the child needs per week and then what schools in the cluster that serve that many hours.

It was recommended that my son attend the learning center at Burning Tree. I visited the school and didn't feel that the class was a good fit for him. I am sure it is a great class/school and wonderful class setting for some kids but just didn't seem like the right for my little guy. The other school recommended to us was Kensington Parkwood in the LAD program. They explained to me that this is like a typical class with all services pushed in (I was told typical class is about 25 students. The teacher for that program is the one who told me 25 students.). I also did not feel like this was the appropriate setting for my son. He would drowned in a class of 25 but he also did not need as much support as the learning center...

To me, it seems like the kids in the middle of the autism spectrum have a much harder time finding a school that fits. MCPS has great services for high functioning (little support needed) or more severe autism.

We decided to waive kindergarten and have him do transitional K and then K the following  year. He is in private school now, very small mainstream class and we provide fulltime shadow trained by his ABA therapist in addition to ABA therapy and OT outside of school. The school only goes through K though so we will have to start the hunt again soon.

I don't really have a ton of advice for you because I am not sure how you would handle MCPS if you haven't moved here yet and don't have a specific home school. I definitely think you need an advocate to help navigate.

Wishing you lots of luck in this process. It can be very overwhelming. 
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