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the-comander
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03 Jun 2015, 10:32 am

AspieUtah wrote:
I had a friend who taught junior-high school classes for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. In the second year of his tenure, budgeting caused the school (or district) to combine the students with all the disabled students. My friend saw the social cohesion of his classes deteriorate. Several all but dropped out. It turns out (no surprise, really) that even disabled students have a social pecking order. Some students considered other students "stupid" or ... well you get the idea. My friend ended up teaching the material twice (once to his deaf students and again to his other disabled, but hearing, students). So, in my friend's opinion, blending students of different disabilities or severities isn't always a good idea. Sure, it might help some students to transition into mainstreamed curriculum. But, others might not benefit from the experience as much as others would. As a nation, we saw this phenomenon during the deaf-college protests in the early 1990s who made similar demands. Sometimes, segregation works.

Oh definatly. Also half the kids dont learn anything eother way.



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13 Aug 2015, 5:04 am

This might cause problems for the kids that are aggressive. Along with a bright future, quality education can help them in overcoming these problems. That’s the reason I did sound research for best Phoenix pre-k before enrolling my son to the preschool.



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14 Aug 2015, 2:31 am

Bkdad82 wrote:
My son is 2 years old and were in the process of picking a CPSE school in NYC (3-5 years old). A lot of the schools make an observation session which is meant to assess which classroom to assign them to. It seems that the whole point is to exclude problematic or low functioning kids entirely from the schools with the best reputations. I think this should be illegal and its outrageous for them to do this. Has anyone seen this happen?


Yes here in Australia this is done very craftily. By law prestigious private Australian schools (non-government) are prohibited from excluding an application from a student on the basis of disability. I enrolled my autistic daughter into a number of private girl's schools when she was born. What happened was there is an interview a few months prior to prep. At this time the teacher and headmaster ask the child a series of questions and observe the child playing with other children. If the child demonstrates that she will either be disruptive to the class or not respond to verbal requests the discussion will turn to special needs. They will bring in their school psychologist who will politely explain to the parents that because of "discipline standards" in order to maintain class order and disruption to other children's activities the school is unfortunately not equipped to handle your child and not resourced (ironically) to cater for special needs. At this point they do not tell you "we can't enroll her" but basically strongly encourage moving the child to special needs school or mainstream government school with allocated funding for an integration aide.

The position the parent of the autistic child finds themself in makes it impractical to risk spending thousands of dollars when they are told there will be no support. i.e. sink or swim. For those parents who persevere and ignore the warnings will experience a polite form of ostracism by the school authorities and parents who quietly wait for the parent to crack under the lack of support and financial bleeding and move the child out.