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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]So why do so many parents with SN kids want CMI? [/b]I would like to hear from parents with NT kids or advanced learners to know how differentiation is working for their kids[/quote]

As far as I'm aware, CMI is the only public school in DC that uses the Floortime method. It is also the only school with a commitment to serving special needs kids in inclusive classrooms. Those are two big draws for some parents of SN kids.[/quote]

Every school must serve special needs kids in the regular classroom. It is the law.

[b]Floortime helps some children with autism[/b][b]. But there is no evidence that it will help a child with dyslexia learn to read, teach a child with an expressive speech disorder to speak or improve phonemic awareness, or remediate dysgraphia etc.

As a public school CMI must meet all the needs of all the kids — including the NT ones. 
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Any published data to support this?[/quote]

Yes look it up on PubMed. [/quote]

PP here.  I looked up a few references provided on the Greenspan website.  I don't see any compelling evidence for the efficacy of this approach, unless there are studies I'm missing.

For example, this recent pilot study does not have a control arm, and it involves only 11 families.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24865120

Ditto here--single-arm pilot study.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21690083

It seems that all the studies I saw of Floortime are small, open-label, single-arm studies.  Are there any studies that have compared Floortime to other treatments?  Otherwise you run the risk of not being able to rule out placebo effects in the Floortime group.  Which basically means it's unclear whether Floortime works for children with autims, or whether they are improving due to something not directly related to Floortime, such as merely extra attention being paid to these kids.

This matters because when you're going to put stock in a particular treatment and require teachers to be trained in it, etc., there should be clear evidence from rigorous studies that it's effective.  Not sure if that evidence exists, in this case--again, unless there's some evidence I've missed.[/quote]

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