best place to live child with autism

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Originally Posted by mejaka

I can't discount brokencrayola's experience, but my friend (whose 9-year-old son is autistic) has been fairly impressed with the services in the C d'A school district (she moved here from LaGrande, OR). Brandon has a full-time aide who attends school with him. He's in a regular 5th grade classroom and the school has kept him and my son together because they feel (as Shauna does) that the relationship is good for Brandon. (Shauna says Nate treats Brandon like any other kid; I don't see that so much but I'm not the mother of the autistic son, and I don't have a lifetime of things to compare it to).

Almost anywhere you go, as the parent of a challenged child, you have to advocate, but Shauna has been generally impressed with the response she's gotten. I know that she's welcomed to the school, and you know how often the fighting parent of a challenged child becomes a pariah.

In the small congregation of my church over the past five years, we have had four autistic boys of varying ages and abilities, from one who is significantly developmentally delayed (and without the innate high intelligence of many children with autism) to Brandon (smart, more social than typical, significant communication problems) to two young men whose lives were severely impacted by their autism. I know one other mother of an autistic child (very high-functioning--most people don't realize she's autistic, just unusual :^ ) ) through the PTO here. Add crayola, and you at least know you'd be in good company as far as numbers go. This isn't that big an area.

my daughter also went to school in the couer d alene area it as integrated and the school was really great! she was realy young then but it was a great school we r in california now...oregon was good for the early intervention...madera ca...she wet to school here and turned into a monster after about a year and a half of nightmare and the school not following through the wanted us to put her in county...no-no...weve been homeschooling her..within 2 mnths she was doing waaaaaay better, i dnt know if the demands were to high but it was a mess, I have recieved no special services here ..all on our own here! cvrc? waste of time!