Relocating to Waco with a special needs teen (Austin, Temple: school districts, university)

[NCaggie94]

I am looking at a job opportunity in Waco, but I have a special needs teen that has just started high school. What services are there in the Waco area. Also, I thought about living in Temple so I could be near Austin (the assumption is that a larger city would have more services for him). What do you think. Any information would be helpful.

[jtur88]

If you would specify the nature of the "special needs", someone might be able to suggest the availability of appropriate services.

[texasdiver]

Waco has two major hospitals and the city and surrounding suburbs are covered by about 10 different school districts if you include the smaller rural ones that are within easy commuting distance. Waco also has Baylor University which has a major school of education.

jtur88 is correct. You need to specify what you mean by "special needs". But unless you are talking about some sort of seriously rare medical condition that requires supervision by rare specialists. Or unless you are talking about some sort of extremely rare and debilitating learning disorder that also requires unusual specialists, I doubt you'll have any trouble. The larger two school districts serve a lot of "special needs" kids and have all sorts of specialists on staff. As many as you're likely to find in the larger districts in the bigger urban areas.