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cinnamon rollout posted:Just curious if any parents of autistic children have had to get into any fights with their school district, and if so, what should I kind of expect once the situation is resolved? My experience is a bit different. My autistic eldest is in an NPS and graduating in June, but he was disruptive in general ed environments. My youngest gets had ADHD and an IEP, but is in gen ed. So most educators who dealt with both generally found my youngest easier to work with. However, what I’ve seen for both following adverse interactions (bordering on attorneys for my eldest, and looping in the district for my youngest) has generally been malicious compliance. This could range from taking the most time possible to set up and hold a meeting, to interpreting “teacher’s notes will be made available for use on the test” to mean “if you track down each teacher’s notes for a given test in the Byzantine collection of random CMS pages or classroom management apps, you can print them for your child to use.” At its best, it can mean “for your ADHD kid, we don’t mind letting him stay enrolled for the last month of the school year during remote learning after you moved out of district, but for your autistic kid, he’s out, and sure you could probably fight it but not in the space of a month, good luck” (Luckily there, our new district’s NPS coordinator was gobsmacked by the old district’s behavior and got it all worked out with the NPS to continue services).
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Well Played Mauer posted:Man these are horror stories. We’ve had a diagnosis for my 5-year-old for about six months and his preschool has been great in helping him when he runs into difficulties. He’s confident enough there that he’s a leader that makes up games for everyone else. But our next worry is the transition to public kindergarten and entering the Actual System. If it helps, my eldest is in a really good placement at an NPS (non-public school, essentially private but paid wholly by the district and focused on special needs) now. He has staff that genuinely cares for him, and he genuinely cares about them as well. We’ve seen significant progress.
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