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How is your AS child schooled?

For british members-- "public school" is the US term for government schools, private schools are ones that charge tuition.

Thanks for voting.

well, how do i post for each AS kid ??? i have one who goes to a private exclusively special ed school and one who goes to a public special ed and mainstream school.....

Although I am not a child, I ran the gamebit in school, Full-time special ed, mainstreamed with special ed assistance, and mainstreamed with no assistance.

I would not recommend that course to anyone however.

Chris is in a mainstream classroom and is pulled out for resource or special ed services at different times. He also has speech (which works on social skills with him as well) and adaptive PE. I love the school that he is at. Even though it is public there are not a ton of kids there so it is very managable and so far everyone has been pleasant and cooperate with seemingly Chris' best interests in mind. I plan on sending Chris' sibs there as well since it is our neighborhood school.

Katherine

Homeschool here with extracurricular activities like seasonal swim team and Scouts - considering additional activities like 4-H and music lessons for my almost 10-y-o (soon as we can find a private teacher here in this little town).

I'm not a parent so I can hardly vote.

However, I will say I went to a statuory/mainstream school and got on about as well as... a polar bear in the desert.

Needless to say, I would recommend anyone against that wholeheartedly.

Ster. vote twice, once for each child.

thanks

I'm in a mainstream school. There are no special services available in my country, except for a few under-funded ones which are mostly for the more obviously disabled (ret*d, blind, deaf).

tried to vote twice, but can't seem to figure it out...oh well.

My kids go to kindergarten and 2nd grade mainstream classes. They are both very high functioning, diagnosed with PDD-NOS. Our short term goals have been focused on keeping them in mainstream classes and maximizing the benefits they can receive from autism specific programs available to us. We are very fortunate to live in a school district that has a small crew of specialists to work with each child's needs. As a stay at home dad, I try my best to keep them busy doing things they enjoy to relieve the need to stim and harden them to the hit or miss aspects of life to come.

My 5 year old daughter is reading a little, slightly more than average, but has a few attention deficit challenges which will become more of a problem as she reaches the more rigidly structured years of her education. She also gets 1 hour/ week of one on one instruction, plus 2 hours/week of group social training courses with 7 other 'special needs' kids, 3 are PDD also. She is easily distracted, never bored, much more extroverted than I or her mother have ever been and she 'owns' the school. It's HER school.

My 7 year old son has a few more issues to work through. He is actually reading at high school level, both recognition and retention. They had to give up on finishing his reading eval last time because he is so far off their scale. His math skills are well above par, but he has improved so much this summer, that I have no idea where he compares to his peers, but it's pretty good. His problems are centered around tactile and aural sensitivities, mostly and his new teacher is very old school. Her response to all our concerns is the same "I've been teaching for 29 years ..." But she has never encountered a student like my son, I'm sure. He also has 3 hours/week of social, self esteem, and 'study habits' special attention in a group setting with 2 other PDD kids plus 7 others. He is genius in many ways, timid, quiet, easily bored and extremely distractible, exactly like me.

We tried the conventional (public school) until a couple of years ago. My son had a second grade teacher that felt the need to snatch him up out of his chair by the arm, if he said that he couldn't or wouldn't do something in class. That went over like a lead balloon, as you can imagine. We tried explaining sensory issues with her, but she wasn't listening. The principal was a tyrant and the music teacher told my son that she didn't like him and didn't want him in her class, but that she didn't have a choice! Imagine how it made him feel. So, we homeschool exclusivele now and have for a couple of years. We have a new Superintendent and Principal this year and they are open to him going to school part time, so hopefully this will be a positive step. The thing about homeschooling that is so difficult and stressful for me is that I have him 24/7, I cannot work outside the home any longer and that makes a financial strain on the household. But, we do what is best for him, so it is worth it.

My son was a student of the "best school" for the disabled in my homeland.

I thank God they did not succeed in killing him.

Imagine 2 years later since he has not been there, if I drive near any roads that lead to this school my son experiences post traumatic stress from the crap they did.

Lots of institution claim to be all that but parents when your guts says something is not right, listen.

He is a happy homeschooler . . . compared to the sleepless nights he and I endured when he was a student.