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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It absolutely can work.  We went to a small private for our child that had severe language delays and some social.  It was a great year for him.  He was in small classes where the teachers could give him lots of attention until he as ok on his own.  They also carefully matched him with a few other boys they thought he'd do well with and it was a great match for all the boys.  My son has rapidly progressed, finally and we're stay for another year just to give him more time before a public.  Our insurance covers speech so we continued it privately - some before school and he'd be late and some after school.  My child had severe speech delays but no learning.  Its generally assumed these kids have other disabilities, but its not always the case.  He was a bit behind in writing/fine motor but we work on it at home and they work on it at school and its catching up too.  It really depends on what you think is best for your child.  I would not place a child with severe to moderate speech delays, especially receptive in a large classroom.  Mild is ok.

We found it very hard to find a school that would take my child as many only focused on the negative and could not see past it or any positive.  Obviously in the end, it was a blessing as we made it to the right school.[/quote]

This is so close to our experience I half-wondered if I wrote it and forgot.

We went the SN route first and then after some progress took the leap to a small mainstream private and it's been great.  After first encountering the closed-mindedness that the PP describes.  But also as PP says, it's about finding the RIGHT school.  A private might be the right one or it could be very, very wrong.

Not every school has a flawless sense of whether they can help a particular child -- but many do have a good sense.  In our case we had a school that was looking us in the eye and saying, "We think your child would thrive here, and here's why, etc."  And they were so, so right. Best decision we ever made.[/quote]

Most schools I found didn't even want to take the time to be bothered.  I found that often they assume SN is behavioral problems and most privates except those who specialize in it are not able reasonably to deal with it but why exclude kids with speech, fine mother and other mild delays that look far worse than they really are.[/quote]

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