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[quote=Anonymous]If you look at the budget on page 137 you can see that the supervisor and admin secretary positions for the units were cut - and now I guess all these areas will just have support from one supervisor and one coordinator?  These people do not have specific expertise in autism or any of these areas if they're the current people in charge now.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/budget/fy2027/2027operatingbudget.pdf

To answer some questions about the Autism Unit as someone who used to work in the special ed office... they are not serving ALL autistic kids in the county, though they will provide consults as needed.  They are working directly with the most highly impacted kids.  The biggest program is "classic autism," which serves kids who also have cognitive disabilities.  The quality is going to drop substantially without a supervisor who understands the program and my gut feeling is that the new special ed leaders are going to use the remaining autism specialists to push into other schools to help with the rise in behaviors of autistic kids out in the neighborhood schools.  The program actually is based in ABA, which requires a lot of ongoing training and support of the teachers to maintain quality instruction.  I don't think the new leadership understands the gem they have and how much money it has actually saved the county by keeping these kids out of private schools.  And as an aside-- there are no spots in these schools either, so what will happen to the kids who need more?[/quote]

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