In researching LD schools this weekend, I looked up a very well known, well respected school in the DC area. I lived in northern Virginia just across the bridge from DC for a few years post college and loved it. For a long time I wanted to move back, but after the kids it didn't seem quite so attractive. Still....if it were for a school for Riley...maybe?
Maybe not.
In reviewing their admissions policies on its website....the school states specifically that prospective student's learning disabilities may not be the result of "autisim, Asperger's, or PDD"
( a handy term for kids on the spectrum we don't know how to place...stands for pervasive developmental disorder...nice, huh?) . This is discrimination, plain and simple. Autism is a spectum. A very broad spectrum. You cannot possibly lump all of these kids together and make an assumption about them.
The search continues.
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~sigh~
It's probably not the school for your child if they are not looking at each as an absolute individual.
Good luck on your quest. And congrats on the kitties. They're adorable.
Discrimination - pure and simple, sprinkled with prejudice and ignorance. A nasty mix that must be stopped by mothers like us!We are mothers, hear us roar!
so sad.
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