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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think you REALLY need to understand that the kids in mainstream privates in this area are also all very bright AND don't have ASD. Is it fair to force your kid into that situation - only you know the answer to that. [/quote]

You don't know her child and that's unfair to decide he will not be successful just because other kids aren't.  A mainstream privates was exactly what my child needed.  I cannot imagine what would have happened with public given our experience with public.  There are decent schools with very decent people who are willing to give our kids a chance and help them be successful if they are able.[/quote]

Curious, what kind of supports did your child need in K?  My child is very mildly affected, but this is what he got at his public school with an IEP:  K class with 21 kids and 1 classroom aide (very experienced aide finishing her degree);  10 hours of push-in support from the special ed teacher; weekly OT; weekly social worker.  When the push-in special ed teacher wasn't there, the classroom aide would act as a de-facto push-in aide and make sure my child got situated and participated in specials etc.  The other 2 kids I know with HFA have even more supports - one has a 1:1 aide all day plus everything else; the other is in a excellent autism inclusion classroom.  I have a hard time believing that any mainstream private could come close to this.  [/quote]

Prek-2nd we had 8 kids in a class and often had an assistant.  21 kids would have been a disaster early on.  In public we got 2 30 minutes of group speech and that was about it.  [b]That is not mildly impacted if you got that level of services and your child needs that level of support.[/b]  Now, a few years later, he just needs a teacher to check in every once in a while but rarely needs any extra support (nor would he get it at his public so if he needs it we will have to go back to private), grade and test scores are all very good.  Needs no assistance in specials or outside activities.[/quote]

So your child has autism, and all they needed to be successful was a small class size?  Does he get any other therapies?  [/quote]

Also, if your child is actually autistic, then yes, they do need services and support.  If they don't actually need professional supports in the classroom, then why bother disclosing the diagnosis?  But I don't think that's OP's situation, since she knows the diagnosis would be obvious.    But I'm not really sure what OP is looking for in a mainstream private -- that she would pay for the extra supports in the classroom, that the private teachers would not need any professional training in SNs, or that she could do all private therapies out of school and that would be enough?  [/quote]

Its very individual to the child.  We had outside therapies and the teacher would regularly communicate but because of how the school set up was, they took the time to help and it was exactly what my child needed.  The special educator and all that training we found was completely unhelpful once we went to public.  I'd take someone willing over someone unwilling and SN trained any day.  Most privates don't allow extra supports in the classroom and with a willing teacher and outside therapies, it can work.

Remember ASD is a huge spectrum.  Kids who were PDD-NOS are now diagnosed with ASD as there is social communication disorder but its not equal in standing nor does it get services paid for.  So, someone saying their child is mildly impacted may mean something very different.  The other poster listing everything they got in public is very different than what mine got.  Our public will not work with all.  My child needed a lot of support and services, but now older he's fine without any of it.  He could benefit from support at school in one academic area but the school refuses to help with that so we gave up fighting as it was a losing battle.

We fully disclosed what was going on.  A lot of schools weren't willing but I'm grateful now as we landed at the right school for our child.  We also had a some say they'd take him but it was clearly for the money.

The only issue we had with the private was them knowing when to back off and let him do it on his own. And, that's not a bad issue to have.

I wish they had their old staff still or it might be a good fit for OP.  [/quote]

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