Most typical privates, no. They sent out acceptance letters last week. This is not considering you wanting a 1:1 aide which is generally not typical or provided by the schools, public or private, for SN kids for this area.

Some SN schools like Auburn and Ivymount have rolling admissions so they may take your DD since they are always looking for girls. You may want to try Maddux and Kingsbury too. But these are all SN schools.

No private school, SN or mainstream, is going to accept your child without seeing her in person, unfortunately. You don't have to come here beforehand to look for housing?

Original post here … I talked to some gen ed and SN schools in DC/VA/MD. It seems to me that the schools want to see and interview my daughter (not just see her std test results). However, we won't move there until end of June.
Will most schools no longer have openings by that time?

Anonymous wrote:13:03, Can you tell me more about the "inclusive classroom w/ SpEd teacher assigned to it"? What's the role of SpEd teacher and mainstream teacher? Who's taking the data if there's no aide in the mainstream classroom?

My kid goes to an immersion language school, Mandarin, where they switch classrooms, 50% English, 50% Mandarin. The Sp Ed teacher is bilingual and assigned to the target language classroom. She takes the data and helps in the Chinese classroom.

The English classroom started out the yr with an assistant student teacher but no longer has one. The teacher is very experienced however and does a good job.

It's an inclusive classroom but all the kids were diagnosed after they started at a school where preK is 100% in Mandarin and most don't know any Mandarin prior. Not a school which is chosen if a child has significant SNs. Also by first grade, many kids whose needs the school cannot meet have gone elsewhere.

My child with ASD is probably about as severe and affected by a disability as it gets at the school. Currently, DS's main issue which is addressed in his IEP is his need for a lot of prompts to do his work, finish, stay on task, etc. Depending on the day and his mood, some days he needs no prompts and other days like recently where he told his teacher, she is "wasting HIS time" by insisting he finish an assignment, he needs a lot. Oy! DS does not need any academic support in his IEP just social/behavioral supports.

I imagine the special ed teacher "takes the data"? (How much data are we talking about? How many goals are there?).