Re: School social skills in high school

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At my high school alma mater, we do. I am taking an extra year of high school at a boarding school to gradually adapt to mainstream. My last school, Lab School of Washington (LSW) in District of Columbia, is a K-12 school. In the high school, students in grades 9-11 attend the IEP meetings, as the IEP is not needed for seniors because IEP are for the following year. At age 15 or 16 i was diagnosed with Asperger's Disorder (DSM-IV 299.80), which surprises me so late because I attended a school that has a department staffed by psychologists with Ph.D. degrees.Sincerely, A. WongFrom: r_woman2 <me2ruth@...>Subject: ( ) School social skills in high school Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 6:24 PM

I am curious for those of you with high-schoolers with HFA/AS that have IEPs. What do you have for services (connected to the school) and what is on your child's IEP regarding social skills? What are the specific items and goals?

Ruth

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I know the child in our high school gets adapts gym (O.T.) and speech therapy (social skills). She also has a para with her at all times....so if she is melting down....they leave the class and go for a walk. She is in all pull out classes (spec.ed. classes). She would never make it in inclusion classes or academic classes.

She is now exempt from the state testing due to high anxiety and stress.

jan

Janice Rushen

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From: r_woman2 <me2ruth@...>Subject: ( ) School social skills in high school Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 6:24 PM

I am curious for those of you with high-schoolers with HFA/AS that have IEPs. What do you have for services (connected to the school) and what is on your child's IEP regarding social skills? What are the specific items and goals?Ruth

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> I know the child in our high school gets adapts gym (O.T.) and speech therapy

(social skills).� She also has a para with her at all times....so if she is

melting down....they leave the class and go for a walk.� She is in all pull

out classes (spec.ed. classes).� She would never make it in inclusion classes

or academic classes.�

> She is now exempt from the state testing due to high anxiety and stress.

Jan or anybody, do you know any high school Asperger kids that are inclusion?

What do they have on their IEP, goals, etc.? I have gotten a couple of replies

to this, some of them quite interesting and different. I'll post them at some

point if anybody is interested. But I'm still looking. Still thinking about

what the autism team has said so far and waiting to hear their final

recommendations in 2 or 3 weeks. The two different departments at the

children's hospital had rather different recommendations, so that is kind of

interesting.

Ruth