Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy "forget the IQ, deal with his behaviour" ???

This is such hard stuff and I feel for you in trying to make these decisions. So much of it is a guess and it may just come down to the luck of the draw on the individual classroom teacher too.

I sense it isn't what you want to hear but I'll share...Probably a third of our local homeschooling group is made up of kids on the autistic spectrum most of them kids with AS or HFA. Nearly all these kids first went to public school and it didn't work out for a variety of reasons including sensory overload, lack of adequate intellectual challenge, punitive environment, and overwhelmingly negative social experiences. That isn't to say school won't work for your son, it may and it is great that you are investigating ways to try to make it successful. but I would encourage you not to permanently close any doors. Treat it as a year at a time decision and be ready to pull him if you need to.