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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I was you a few years ago. Our child did not elope or do things like taking off his clothes but did have several large meltdowns at that age that made us question WTH was going on. Our DC had done fine in preschool.

We went down the same road and Weinfeld was useless. 
You need to get a lawyer for a child with behaviors.

At the same time you should get someone to help do an FBA and figure out the function of the behaviors. This is really hard and you may try a few things and find out you were wrong until you hit the right trigger. Remember usually behaviors can be characterized as being triggered by seeking something or avoiding something. What is it that he is seeking or avoiding? It may be the fans bother him or it's too bright in the classroom. It could be he's being bullied. Does he have undiagnosed dyslexia? These are really simple reasons and often it's a lot more complicated and less concrete than that. The last example of a child having dyslexia is a true one. One of DC's friends became very angry at that age and was lashing out until the parents figured it out. He's also 2e (as is our son.)

For the lawyer you need to figure out what you want. Do you want to figure out a way to have him stay at his school with support? Do you want a new placement and if so what do you think would be the right one? There are social emotional placements where they have social workers and psychologists helping with behaviors. I am not in DCPS but in our school district those programs work really well for kids at a young age. Many of those kids transition back to fulltime mainstream programs.

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