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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To avoid confusion, let me offer the following additional info.

We have a consultant and a neuropsychologist helping us.  We’re doing additional testing too.  We want the school to know exactly what they’re getting.  We are not zoned for a good school and there is not a good transfer option.  We’ve already looked into the options w the school district.  We didn’t qualify for services from Child Find back when we tried.  The person at the preschool has some idea what she’s talking about re IEP eligibility because she was heavily involved in the public school IEP process for our district for kids this age in her prior job.  [b]Child is very bright - been tested for that already and will be again.
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We have four high-quality SN schools on our list — toured some of them already —  but they are each one hell of a drive to get to.  We would prefer not having kiddo spend 1.5 hours in the car each day and instead on the playground or in social skills classes, etc.

I’m on DCUM wanting to hear from folks who have real-world experience w mainstream schools that can speak positively or negatively and specifically, preferably w names of schools.  Consultants etc are great but I’d like to hear from parents too — in fact, parents recs mean a lot!

Hope that helps.   TIA for any info you can provide.[/quote]

Kids who are very bright can get an IEP.  IQ is not a barrier for an IEP.  If your son has an ASD diagnosis, is very bright, and you think you may want to consider public schools, I urge you to get an IEP in preschool.  For those kids who do well academically, you want to get an IEP sooner rather than later because some schools will consider "good grades" a barrier to an IEP even if the law says "educational impact" rather than only academic impact for an IEP.

My DS who is 11 with ASD/ADHD attended a Mandarin immersion public charter school for prek4-5 with an IEP and had a great experience.  He is very bright and a top nationally ranked chess player.  His IEP was always mainly about social communication supports with some OT.  Academically, he did just fine fully mainstreamed.  For middle school, DS is going to a SN school with a bunch of other very bright kids who need similar social supports.

DS was diagnosed when he was 4 but prior to that he had gotten into some mainstream well known privates.  At 2, DS passed as NT.  We chose the charter because we wanted DS to learn Mandarin (we don't know it).  Looking back, it was the right choice for DS.  We plan on sending DS to a mainstream private middle school for the later part of middle school and having him repeat a grade.  DS has a summer birthday and was not red shirted which makes him younger and less mature than most kids who go to private school.

The main thing I would look for in a school, public or private, for a kid with this profile is [b]small class size[/b].  For K at our charter, the ratio was 17 kids with a teacher, assistant teacher and a bilingual sp ed teacher.  The kids changed classrooms depending on whether it was Chinese or English day.  I doubt any mainsteam private school in this area could beat that.[/quote]

Maddux can. 10-12 kids in a class, 2 full time special education teachers, one assistant teacher and OT and SLP that transition in throughout the day. Maddux is an exceptional school for the right type of child.[/quote]

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