Any experience with ED classrooms? Update in #16
Update in post #16
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DS is in the 5th grade at a K-5 elementary school. We are in the process of gathering information on possible placements for next year. DH and I are visiting various classrooms, but haven't yet found one that is a good match for DS.
The special education coordinator has started to push us towards the "Mental Health/ Emotional Disturbance" classroom. She believes this class has both the structure and the academic level DS needs.
We have not observed this classroom yet. DH and I agreed to keep an open mind about it, but we have concerns about whether an ED classroom is appropriate for a student with autism. I don't know much about ED, so I don't know if the techniques and accommodations used in ED classrooms also work with autistic kids.
Obviously we have a lot of questions for the school staff on this. But I would appreciate if anyone has experience with or insight about ED classrooms. Or if anyone is aware of any studies about autistic students in ED classrooms, that would be great. I've looked, but I haven't found anything.
Last edited by Gena; 12-30-2014 at 10:19 PM.
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong