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-Have you or your Autistic child been in special education classes? Have they helped?

I have for i think for a few years but it did help a little but not alot but i was moslty in manstream classes. But i was in resorse for a couple of reason for my acadimic difficulty but it did help in some areas and other not so much but it all depends on the subject matter.

Would getting help from an "aid", but being in a regular classroom with "regular" students, be concerned special ed classes?

When I was in them they were no more than a warehouse to keep the strange kids from disturbing the normal students. But that was the 70's and 80's I am sure they are better today. I did not recieve much of an education. I was lucky to have spent my last two years in normal classes. Another thing you should consider is that just being in special education will set your child up for torment and ridicule by the NT students and the teachers will do nothing to stop it.

I was in special ed in 1st and second grade. Still did some speech therapy as a 3rd grader too.

They tried to teach us how to talk to other kids (not helpful though, seeing as how we were already segregated from the others), how to hold scissors right (I still hold them "wrong" at 19), and some general speech therapy, one-on-one. I had trouble with s's and ch's. I used to say Jackie Shan instead of Chan or shicken, not chicken. The speech stuff actually helped though. (:

I did ride the short, white bus to school though. Which, you know, does wonders for a little kid's social life. Honestly all I remember is a little girl that sat in the seat behind me named Zoolie. We never talked.

There's my special ed experience in a nutshell.

My mom had me enrolled into a special ed preschool when I was three years old because of a speech delay I had. I attended that school until I was six years old, and then started kindergarten.

I had a fun experience in special ed, because it was the very first school I'd ever gone to, and it gave me a taste of the education system. My teacher was very nice and I made a lot of friends.

My classmates seemed to have a range of different disabilities. Some were there for a speech delay, and others seemed to have more debilitating disorders. I thought it was just a normal school, though. I wasn't really aware of being in an environment for special needs students.

Afterward, I continued to take speech therapy until the third grade.

Yes. Freshman and sophomore in IEP special ed classes. The rest were mainstreamed. I wasn't really proud of being a special ed kid.

I am one of the more "high functioning" people with aspergers. I refused to be in special ed classes. it was because I thought I should be "fitting in" and that if I went into special ed then I would never be able to "fit in". Which is partly true.
I never needed it myself. I probably could have used a person to help me interpret what the teacher is saying at time... but I got really good at it eventually.

I have an IEP but have never taken real SPED classes, all mainstream. In middle school though I took an elective course for kids with IEP's to work on homework and get assistance, but I have always been in reg ed classes and a few Honors ones.

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My math class is my only special class. Everything else I have is mainstream.

I was in ESL in 1st grade through 3rd grade. They thought I was a foreign child! Or they had no other services (I don't know).

That helped alot and I found it very fun; I got to learn without worrying about being punished by an exam. But I hated it when they took me out of my Social studies class; I really liked hearing about the eskimos.

I was in 9th or so grade, had just switched schools and they threw me into main stream classes. I was removed I believe from a class and put in a math class - behind the school in a portable trailer, that was totally cramped and had a loud AC running. It felt like I was in an airplane honestly, but I didn't perceive emotions of claustrophobia, instead I felt overwhelmed, and I can't remember why but I was removed from that class and shortly after landed back in special ed. This always has been an ideal setting, small class - big room, quiet... Not helpful academically at all but comforting.

I have always had an IEP and gotten help from an education assistant and have a block for doing my homework, but I have always been in mainstream classes. I do have a room if I want a quiet place to work, but I don't do any different work than other kids and I usually (I had this one education assistant who wasn't very good about it) have the choice to go to classroom if I want.

We have a room for "high-needs" kids called the "skill room" (Also called the "stinky room" by me and one of the educational assistants because it smells awful at lunch time because many people heat their food up in there and they heat up a bunch of different types and it smells gross). I don't like it there, because as of already said, it smells. In addition to that, it's quite loud in there, they have signs up on the wall that bother me and I am not on good terms with everyone who uses that room.

my special ed class is pretty bad there are people with adhd and stuff in it. not that i have anything against adhd people it is just impossible for me to do work when they are there. last year apparently there was a kid who brought vodka and pcp to school in a bottle. but that ended after the police had to shoot someone who was pcp crazy. the class still sucks even tho they got rid of the drugs and parties that were happening.

Nope, they are not better today, unless you are in a really good school district. Special ed is not the place for high functioning people. You're better off being homeschooled or with an aid in regular classes. My sister was in special ed, but she has a totally different set of problems and she's not autistic. I went through two years of preschool, and I'm sure I came off as a really dull child. I'm pretty sure the teachers would have put me in some sort of special program if my mom had not pulled me out to homeschool me. I was learning fine, and my mom had me doing piano competitions since I was 4. It's just that I couldn't socialize and play, or find my way to the bathroom without getting lost. When I rejoined mainstream school, I was two grades ahead. If I had stayed in school all that time, chances are I would not be going to college right now, and I definitely would not be applying to med school. I still get lost all the time, so I'll just be a doctor with a bad sense of direction

I had an IEP until I graduated but I wasn't really receiving many services after junior high. I was never in a special ed classroom but I did get speech and occupational therapy in elementary school. I was in inclusion classes until my last years of high school when my school figured out that I didn't need to be in them anymore. But I had the option of asking any teachers for help when I needed it and I could always go to a quiet room to get my work done or just to decompress for a little bit. Now I don't get any services in college.