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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always feel like this board, which is great otherwise, has a very big slant towards wanting to put SN kids in SN schools rather than mainstreaming them.
I'm all for getting kids the support they need, especially at a young age, but when a child functions as well as OP's I'm 100% with her in wanting to keep that child in a mainstream environment.
He does well academically and seem to have any behavioral issues. [b]All the teachers have to do is encourage him and the other kids to be friends?[/b] Even NT kids, especially at that age, have social skills deficits.
OP's kid sounds like he would do great at many privates around here.[/quote]

Depends on what you mean by "great".  If you mean academics, sure.  But the question with smart kids with ASD is whether they'll be happy at the school and have friends.[/quote]

If that was all that is needed then the kid isn't autistic.  [/quote]

Well that's not exactly true right? Kids with ASD often have pragmatic speech and OT issues that don't really cause too many problems in the early grades.[/quote]

Depends on what you mean.  My kid with ASD does not have academic or behavioral issues but he definitely needs supports to participate in the classroom and to engage with peers and to make friends. More than the responsive social curriculum provided at our mainstream charter which is great for NT kids.

Without the supports in the IEP, he would be the kid in the sidelines without friends not participating in whatever group activity is going on but yeah, no academic or behavioral issues.  If all I cared about are good grades and not getting into trouble for bad behavior then DS will be fine without an IEP.

However, I want DS to have friends and like/enjoy school.

I am the pp whose family members on the spectrum attended private schools, k-12.  They got excellent grades, had no discipline issues and went to ivy or equivalent colleges.   They had none or very few friends.  I don't want DS to have that kind of school experience.

But if a parent thinks that is enough then by all means.[/quote]

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