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[quote=Anonymous]This is an odd but interesting thread. We're not at Maddux but DC has two friends who go there and the description that Maddux poster above gave about her son also describes the two kids I've met.

Both are great, pretty outgoing kids but have mild behavioral issues meaning they sometimes have tantrums and sometimes refuse to their work or otherwise follow directions. I think both parents have told me they have some executive functioning issues as well.

But if you saw a group of kids their age you would probably not be able to pick them out. I think their parents think of them as more delayed or immature than other children their age but I wouldn't be surprised if they left Maddux to go to a mainstream private or general education in public with no IEP. I think that's kind of the point of Maddux isn't it? To give them the extra time and support to learn these skills at a younger age before throwing them into a larger, more chaotic and less understanding environment.

Public schools SHOULD be able to handle children like this but  they often make the problems worse with their inability to handle small problems and end up stigmatizing these kinds of children. Maddux seems to offer more understanding about these kinds of issues until the children can learn to navigate the outside world a little better. I don't know if that makes it a "special needs" school in the way that some PPs think.[/quote]

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