District appears to equate “autistic support” with a class. Autistic

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District appears to equate " autistic support " with a class. Autistic

support is a service category, not a classroom. Autistic support can

be provided in any

classroom by competent professionals. It does not require the

aggregation of autistic

students in a room

In this case, once the Student experienced lack of meaningful

progress or downright failure, the District blamed the Student,

maintaining that the

Student presented with disabilities that were foreign to the students

in the District, that

the District personnel were not trained to work with this Student,

that the Student missed

too much school, that the Student did not gain much from associating

with typical peers,

and so on and so forth. In fact, the District failed to create a

program to meet the

Student's needs, failed to train its staff adequately and failed to

implement the parts of the

program that could have been appropriate.

http://odr.pattan.net/ODRapps/App1858.pdf

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