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Thank you for posting this. The details ARE really helpful!

Thanks for taking the time to post all this info. But i have to ask where is this school. I see that you mentioned NYS regents. We live on Long Island, in one of the so call better school districts. We are having a hard time getting any support for our AS son who is heading to 6th grade next year. MY wife and I just don't know what to do. After 4 yrs of working with the school and IEP team we had a meeting in Oct with the team and they stated our son is doing great. He is meeting all his goals on his IEP even in organization. 3 weeks later for this parent teacher meeting his regular teacher states "he organization is terrible his work is not organized and she does not know how he will manage the transition to 6th grade." We want to find a different school for our son.

How heartbreaking!

Why, thank you! I'm happy it was helpful and apparently not rambling!

There is just one ASD-NEST middle school program in NYC, in District 15 in Brooklyn. A second school with an ASD-NEST program is going to open in southwestern Queens next year.

I think the success of the school will depend on the folks hired to run it. The principal at my son's school hired some great teachers. If you are looking at privates, I have heard that the Learning Springs program in Manhattan is a good program for kids with Asperger's.

There are some great books that help with organizational issues, like Smart But Scattered, that could help you figure out what tasks he need helps with and how to break it down into manageable, changeable bits.

You can then thry to get some of theat incorporated into his IEP. And what kind of an IEP and IEP meeting is this? Your son's teacher should have been present at the IEP meeting, and they should have checked with her before reportign that organization was going well! She is supposed to be at the IEP meeting!

BK1