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New on the forum, our 12 year old has high functioning autism and is currently being home schooled for the last 2 years. My wife wants to go back to work but public school is not an option. I'm not sure about private schools or centers for kids with special needs. Looking for experiences and ideas.
Thanks,
Paul.

Private schools could be pricey unless you can get your local school board to help off set the costs. I too have FHA what my parents did was bring in a teacher for home schooling until they found a center that helped with my needs. Again it could be costly depending on the area you are located in... You may want to explore the option of transitioning your child into a public school setting and/or seeing if an aide is available to perhaps help your kid in a public school setting.

You should contact contact your local school board and find out what special needs center(s) that are a part of your local public school system that are best suited for your child's needs.

Sorry I can't be of more help,

Good Luck~

For background, why did you title the thread "no life"?

The answer to high functioning kids and school really depends on what's around you and also what you need to get and what you need to stay away from. Can you say anymore?

I was put on a school for special needs children and they made everything worse. They didn't treat me with respect, teachers were a*sholes and kids got bullied left and right. I don't think it's good to put a child on such a school. Every school is different but most people I hear have problems with their past when put on such a school. Homeschooling seems the best option for kids with autism. I would have given a lot to be homeschooled back then.

aspies/HFAs shoudnt be segregated into special schools unless their needs cannot be accomodated by mainstream schools [whether public or private],along with NTs; HFA kids are the mainstream society of tomorow, and they need to be integrated into that kind of environment early on,they will get little to no support as adults unless they have comorbid severe mental health needs so are better kept out of a highly theraputic specialist environment as children to enable them to grow with support in mainstream schooling.
mainstream private schools are supposed to be very good so that is well worth looking at.

there are some special schools that are just for HFAs but its still segregation,unless are going to be segregated from society as an adult [those of us with LFA are,as we cannot access mainstream places and do well in highly theraputic specialist environments],then it isnt worth it.

Why would you put no life as your subject when you are talking about your child with HFA?

Thanks everyone for the advice. The subject was more or less referring to my wife as she is experiencing the repetition without much interaction with other adults like you have in a work place. I myself feel guilty if I try to do things with friends and even when I'm home she can feel neglected if I'm doing too much around the house. I also feel home schooling is the best option and would do it myself if she could make enough to support us. I'll keep trying to think this through to see if we can find the best option for all involved.

I went to mainstream schools growing up, almost always with a teacher's assistant at my side, and honestly, I kind of wish I had actually been put into a dedicated special ed program. A lot of the issues I had growing up were because I was jealous of the "normal" kids around me. If I didn't have those kids to be jealous of, I would've accepted my "unfair treatment" as something normal and to be expected.