Dorothy

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Hi, Everyone.....Dorothy....welcome to the group. My son, Gareth, is 21

y/o with DS/ASD/OCD. He was dx'd with ASD at age 5-6, but we never had the

opportunity for ABA since that came into play later. He went through the

regular classrooms with a 1:1 aide till 5th grade. By then, they were

changing classes and he had a major breakdown as far as noise, non

consistency, etc. He couldn't handle the banging lockers and screeching high

voices

of the 5-6th graders. That's when he went into a resource room

setting.....getting academics but very little changing of classes. By HS, he

was

still doing RR's for math, science, reading, etc., but changing classes for

them and had no problems with that. In hind sight, I don't know what I'd do.

I was always pro academics and we moved every 2-3 yrs, so it was hard for

him (and me) getting use to each districts methods/fights, etc. If the

chance for an autistic school came up, I probably would have seriously

checked into it. At least they would have understood his quirks throughout the

yrs!!!

Take care, Everyone.

Margaret