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Old 11-19-2008, 11:39 AM
 
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I need some help, my family will be relocating to the Raleigh area and we dont know what schools are best for my son who is 8 with Autism. Can anyone help? We also have a 13 year old (typical functioning) who will need to go to school. If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great!
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Old 11-19-2008, 11:51 AM
 
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We currently send our son to The Mariposa School in Cary which is fantastic, but can be a little pricy(it's a 1 to 1 teacher student ratio). The Durham County School system also has a lot of great programs for autistic children as well. We'll be transitioning him as he gets older, he's only 2 now.
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Old 11-19-2008, 02:14 PM
 
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Some schools in Cary and Apex have new programs and staff and have been getting high marks. I would search around as all programs are far from the being the same. This is what I have heard from some personal friends who have autistic children. They have been quite pleased with the changes and progress made along with the staff at a few of the Cary and Apex schools.
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Old 05-03-2009, 08:59 PM
 
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My daughter attends Middlecreek Elementary in Cary, NC. It has so far been very good for her. It's a year round program, which although not perfect, does seem helpful -- the long break at summer was too much for my daughter. It seems that it makes a difference which school you are in, and so that makes it hard to answer, since you haven't moved here yet.
I moved down here to NC about a year and a half ago, and all my experiences have been better by far than they were in PA. However, it's much better now in Wake County than it was in Chatham County. And yet, I've heard that Chatham County schools are great, so I think you have to take it county by county, and then school by school.
I just started a column on autism and parenting in the Raleigh area (and all of NC), at Examiner.com. I'd love write a series profiling the experiences families have, good and bad, at the different schools: Raleigh Parenting & Autism Examiner Please contact me from there is you'd like to be included.
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