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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi everyone, OP here. This has been such a helpful thread. Thank you all again.

My oldest has had a FBA and BIP in 1st grade. Oldest DC then seemed to settle down for a couple of years and is now ramping up again in 4th. My middle is in 1st and has a safety plan as well as an IEP. With my oldest, we considered applying for a private placement but there wasn’t really an obvious option - there is Ivymount, but I don’t think that starts until 3rd or 4th. We also looked at another DCPS with a “high functioning” ASD pull out program (Takoma) but decided against it as it would have meant a long daily bus ride across town. In the end we used a lawyer and got partially reimbursed by DCPS for play therapy (and tutoring, although we never bothered as DC is at or above grade level academically and our priority was behavior).

A few other things we have tried: play therapy, Dr Dan Shapiro’s parenting classes, reading The Explosive Child and The Out of Sync Child, weekly OT, craniosacral therapy, probiotic supplements. This thread has given me a lot more useful leads to follow up, and I truly appreciate it.

We had a psychiatrist who moved overseas, and then used Georgetown’s psychiatric clinic which I found to be awful. Now using our pediatrician for prescriptions. I would be extremely grateful for a psychiatrist recommendation to help us navigate medication beyond guanfacine. I have also found it makes my kids wake up incredibly early, and fall asleep very early… I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this side effect.[/quote]

I don’t see actual behavioral therapy listed here - you need the KKI clinics or someone who trained there.[/quote]

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