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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering how old your kid is, OP?

My three are currently at a mainstream private school - fairly competitive and progressive. My oldest has three diagnoses, my middle has 2, and my youngest has 2. We moved after K for my oldest where DC was not doing well, and I thought a smaller class size would help.

A smaller class size did help, as did finding out the right diagnoses and medication, tutoring, therapy, OT, and social skills classes.

I know lots of kids with diagnoses at our school, in part because I am open about my kids having them and parents ask me questions. For my oldest child, I know with with diagnoses including ADHD, anxiety, ASD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, etc. I think about 1/3 of the class gets extended time on tests. For my youngest, she is the only one I know of with a diagnosis, although I am sure that will change with time.

Most independent school families have money and aren’t stressing about paying for a nueropsych or therapy. As soon as I noticed DC1 wasn’t learning to read as expected, I signed them up to get tested - I wanted the results so I could start lining up the supports/therapies/appointments. I need to diagnosis to guide what I need to do to support my kids, I don’t really care about the extra time part of it. [/quote]
+1 we can't afford private school but are fortunate to have good OON benefits, which has made it easier for us to get the neuropsych and therapies. I can see how an ignorant, unkind person might assume we just "bought" a diagnosis, but literally the only thing it has gotten us is information on how best to support DC privately. No school accommodations, no IEP services. Might do medication later if necessary, but it's not right now.[/quote]

yes tell me more about all the kids with intense SN but no IEP …[/quote]

21:03 here. One of my kids has an unknown genetic syndrome which shows itself through a physical disability and we are figuring out the neurological impacts.

We chose to go with private therapies and an independent school because we didn’t want to deal with IEPs and we can afford the private therapies. So we pay for a private tutor (OG) to go to DC’s school 4X per week for tutoring, we pay for private speech (DC was 16% for speech), etc. DC is fortunate that they also have many strengths, so they are doing well in their mainstream independent with the supports. We could likely get these in an IEP, but I don’t want to let MCPS decide who gives my child therapy or how often they get it. [/quote]

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