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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 106168" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>My 2 cents (for what it's worth!) A special behavioral school was proposed (more like pushed in my throat) for my difficult child last spring. I learned 1) it's important to check and see what therapeutic services are really being provided there- ie, are they really doing anything to help this kid, 2) what kind of success rate do they have with students returning to mainstream, 3) does his therapist and psychiatrist and you feel it's right for him/her, 4) check into which diagnosis's the majority of kids there have- I found most of them here had severe ODD and apparently no one had spent much time finding else what else was going on with them. They think my son is bipolar- or at least unipolar depression with- adjustment issues and some anxiety (he's on a mood stabilizer)- and my ametuer research tells me the last place you send a kid with these issues is to an environment where sever behavior problems are the predominant issue.</p><p></p><p>It might benefit you (and difficult child) to do some research, document, and get therapist in the IEP meeting as an advocate. I'm not sure how the law is actually written- others here can help with that- but I simply refused to agree to it for my difficult child. I found another day school that specializes in mood disorders and has about an 80% success rate of kids (as compared to 20%) returning to mainstream, albeit they mostly still need spec. ed services and said the sd could pay for difficult child to go to that one if they it did turn out that mainstream wasn't the place for him right now. </p><p></p><p>Sorry for my soap box- I've just got a big grievence about some of these sd's and "public employees"!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 106168, member: 3699"] My 2 cents (for what it's worth!) A special behavioral school was proposed (more like pushed in my throat) for my difficult child last spring. I learned 1) it's important to check and see what therapeutic services are really being provided there- ie, are they really doing anything to help this kid, 2) what kind of success rate do they have with students returning to mainstream, 3) does his therapist and psychiatrist and you feel it's right for him/her, 4) check into which diagnosis's the majority of kids there have- I found most of them here had severe ODD and apparently no one had spent much time finding else what else was going on with them. They think my son is bipolar- or at least unipolar depression with- adjustment issues and some anxiety (he's on a mood stabilizer)- and my ametuer research tells me the last place you send a kid with these issues is to an environment where sever behavior problems are the predominant issue. It might benefit you (and difficult child) to do some research, document, and get therapist in the IEP meeting as an advocate. I'm not sure how the law is actually written- others here can help with that- but I simply refused to agree to it for my difficult child. I found another day school that specializes in mood disorders and has about an 80% success rate of kids (as compared to 20%) returning to mainstream, albeit they mostly still need spec. ed services and said the sd could pay for difficult child to go to that one if they it did turn out that mainstream wasn't the place for him right now. Sorry for my soap box- I've just got a big grievence about some of these sd's and "public employees"! [/QUOTE]
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