My first grade son attends special day class for academically at level kids who are working on behaviors. Probably half the kids have ASD, but it is not a class only for those diagnosed with ASD and all of the kids are high functioning. The class of 10 boys is all on the same behavior plan which reinforces good behavior and staying on task throughout the whole day by providing 3 levels of rewards, with ipads and hotwheels being the highest level reward. Parents receive a daily report showing… read more

Hi Everyone, My son is turning 3, and is diagnosed mild autism, high functioning. His testing at the public school he will be attending in September said he is overall on the average range. However, they are suggesting only 60 mins inclusion time a day, with the other 5 hours being in self contained. I was surprised by this, and want to ask for more...but I am not sure if I am right in doing so. Any feelings on self contained vs inclusion? What worked for your kids? Thanks!!!

My son turned 5 in July. He was in a PreK class for children with special needs last year, and placed in a multi-age special education classroom this year for grades K-5. I am somewhat uncomfortable with the placement because he is the youngest in his class and there are no other children his age there, all the other children are older. He is academically fine (knows colors, can add/subtract single digits, knows upper and lowercase letters, recognizes a handful pf sight words), but his fine… read more

I'm confused as to which kindergarten they should place my son. They are insisting on the self contained class as he has attention issues and his receptive language is not up to par.I want him in the integrated class with an aide,but they say the demands will still be overwhelming for him. Any advise??

We are not happy with my daughter's current Elementary school and are looking to change. Anyone have a good experience with a school here?

Im looking for recommendations of the best self contained classrooms for either cumberland county or robeson county in north carolina!

Recently we visited the Pre-K classroom my daughter would be attending this September. This is a special education school from the state and it seems to be a great place for her. When visiting the classroom the teachers seemed great but we noticed our daughter was higher functioning then the children there and so did some of the teachers.

My daughter is repeating a lot of words (3 months ago she didn't do this), although we are working on her using her words more in communication instead of… read more

Hello all,

My son David is a 6 years old very smart boy, he has moderate ASD, we live in Michigan and he goes to ASD class at public school, I was looking for a better school system for him and came across private autism schools in a different states because we do not have such a school in Michigan. Those schools offer small size programs with special education teacher and an ABA therapist in the class to help those kids.

I was wondering if any of you have tried those schools and how was the… read more