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Autism School | Do You Think It's A Good Thing? · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys. In this video I'm gonna be
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  talking about autism schools, and what the current consensus
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  and ideas are coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  video guys, I want to discuss if awesome schools are good thing
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  or bad thing and what's the current consensus guys?
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  comment that's left on my videos.
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  Okay guys getting right into it but some schools and let's talk
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  about those things. So Whereas, an Autism school not
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  in school is a school and body set up and designed from an SE n
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  education standpoint to help accommodate children on the
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  Spectrum, to get them to a level where they are wanting to, then
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  put them into mainstream school, that's the idea of autism
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  schools. Now, a lot of children in Autumn
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  schools who are on the Spectrum, also, probably have some other
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  profound disability or they have other learning disabilities,
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  which could probably stop them from or enable them from going
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  to mainstream schooling. Now, in terms of the objectives
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  of having autism schools and awesome, schooling is that they
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  want to be able to bring kids up to a level where they can just
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  go to a mainstream school, just like any other kid in and be in
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  that environment and having successfully transitioned.
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  Now, the argument is quite clear between this, if you have other
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  learning difficulties or your profoundly disabled, of course,
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  it's specialist school is definitely needed, but does that
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  mean that those people can't go to a mainstream school if they
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  didn't have adequate support? Well, if they did have Support
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  in those schools that you could go to a mainstream school with
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  having a profound disability and autism or learning disability,
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  but have the best support. So, you know, the argument is
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  basically this autism schools for General autism, kind of like
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  a good thing or a bad thing because are they stopping kids
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  going to mainstream schools and learning stuff in a mainstream
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  way and then or and having to readapt to it later on in life
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  than just, you know, going there with a one-on-one and spending
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  that money with the specialist to go.
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  With them to that school and it's a great argument because I
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  went to a mainstream school and have no support and I actually
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  benefited in certain ways. Obviously there was a lot of
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  ways I didn't benefit from. Actually.
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  I would have benefited more going to a specialist or having
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  a specialist with me but things like you know, having friends
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  and learning friend stuff from friends and kind of like I feel
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  like I know a lot more about, you know, people because I went
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  to a mainstream school and a group of friends who are I could
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  learn a little bit from those and it was difficult and it was
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  I didn't like going to school and it was hard and I failed
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  miserably at school, but there's certain things were, I kind of
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  benefit from. So I think that's kind of, like,
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  a good thing anyway, you know, in terms of like a sea and
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  schools, and, and, and autism schools, and shhh, I think it
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  should be abolished. No, no, no.
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  We do need essien schools. We do need autism schools.
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  But we also need as well is the mindset that we should try to
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  integrate those schools. Into mainstream schooling
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  because having a in autism classroom within the within the
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  mainstream school system, to me, would be a perfect balance
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  because you have that interaction with all the other
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  neurotypical kids. And then you also have the
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  access and support and room and capability and tools and
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  everything. For the people who are on the
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  Spectrum, it's kind of like one of those.
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  You know, it's a difficult argument because I'm, I guess
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  they're going to they're the reason they're putting people on
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  the autism spectrum into that environment.
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  Because they are capable of taking care of autistic people,
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  profoundly disabled people, some other kind of learning
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  disabilities and all that kind of stuff all in one place and
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  it's easier to maintain, but I feel like sometimes like they
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  miss out on the mainstream School aspect of the the social
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  stuff other could probably benefit from an away.
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  So how do you deal with that? I don't really know and I'm
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  opening this up to discussion. My partner used to work for an
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  sem School specifically with the autistic people there and she
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  said that it was great. It was a great school and I've
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  been there and Their multi-million pound school and
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  it's fantastic. But in terms of, you know, could
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  that rep, you know, could replace that fact and he's got a
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  mainstream School. Absolutely.
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  Not the everybody in there. Is that their their aim is to
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  get them to a mainstream school. So it's kind of like the spend
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  all of that time putting them into a mainstream school, which
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  is interesting and also it's a good thing to do because you
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  know, everybody wants to just be able to go to mainstream school
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  and you know just do as ever. Else does and have that great
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  experience of going to school in that way.
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  I mean I went to mention school like I said, and I really
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  enjoyed it, but I also feel like I learned from that experience
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  and and I feel it's learning those things of having fans and
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  different people around you. And knowing when people are
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  going to be Bullies Are knowing when people are going to be
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  negative. And I'm learning that because
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  you're in that Circle people who already feel those things, and
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  it can teach you those, you know, I think stuff like that.
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  You can't teach in a NECN school but I could be wrong.
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  I'm just as my thought process, I'm not telling you guys that
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  actually. Feels about anything, not at
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  all. I'm just saying.
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  I'm just a, just an open discussion.
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  I'd love for you to join in in the comment section below and
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  let me know what you think. So, here's a simple question.
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  Do I think? Autism schools are a good thing?
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  Yes, I do. Do I think that mainstream
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  schools are a good thing? Yes, I do.
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  But I feel like we need to kind of find some little girl,
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  reminder to together. Like I said, like putting an
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  awesome School inside and mainstream school would be,
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  would be really interesting, and I think a lot of the issues
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  surrounding Autumn schools is that they don't get enough
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  funding because They are desperately in need of funding,
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  but all the fan goes to mention school because there's just a
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  lot more students in mainstream school.
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  So maybe if we married the two schools together, we'd be able
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  to sort something out, where you'd have, you know, I don't
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  know if you're nice and kind of funding pot.
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  I know this is just me, kind of like going off on a tangent
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  here, but the idea of mentions goals as a great idea and the
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  idea of autism schools, it's a fantastic idea.
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  So that we do need to define the difference, you know.
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  So if your child is having Maltese, there's no way you can
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  just put them directly into a mainstream school because
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  they're just not going to survive in that environment.
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  Because it's not going to be, you know, the suit to them.
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  And I'm going to have to deal with those situations.
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  So that autism school, you know, you're appointed a one-on-one
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  and those people at just appointed, you are going to be
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  the people who are going to be the ones to know how to deal
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  with certain aspects are trained in everything.
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  We're mainstream Schools teachers, I think it's one of
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  the less than, like 40% of all mainstream School teachers that
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  have not, as Inning. So it's kind of like there's
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  it's just yeah there's just nothing, you know, there's
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  nothing available. If you're in a mainstream school
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  and you've got an awesome Spectrum Disorder, you need
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  Specialists help and I think that's why often schools are so
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  useful in that respect because they have the specialist there.
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  And I think that personally I think that all mainstream
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  schools need that, you know, Education and Training as well.
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  Because you gotta think about this as well, if you slip
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  through the net and you don't get diagnosed till later on and
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  you go to a mainstream School. You know, you need someone there
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  to be able to be like, okay, I know how to deal with this kid,
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  like I wasn't diagnosed with autism, until I was an adult,
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  but I had like dyslexia and I got a phobia and attachment
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  issues until when I was in primary school night.
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  We had an issue going to primary school, but if the teachers
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  there were kind of like clued up and they have some idea of
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  autism, they would be like oh I get it and so they might be able
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  to work with me but I think I guess that's why autism schools
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  exist in up the beauty of them. And that's why they have that
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  ability to take care of anybody who needs it in that.
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  In situation or environment of schooling or whatever it is
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  academic in just in general, I think it's going to help a lot
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  of people. So my advice would be this as
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  well because a lot of people want to send the kid to an
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  awesome school initially and I think it's a great thing.
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  So I think that everybody who is on the Spectrum and thinks that
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  they should go to an awesome school, do that because you are
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  going to benefit greatly from greatly from it because they're
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  trained in everything and I know how to do it.
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  So what you don't want is a negative experience, you do want
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  to be sending your kid off to a school that they They then, you
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  know, don't like school because it's overwhelming, there's too
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  much. It's too hard from the deal with
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  and then they end up just hating school and they want to just get
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  out of school and then, yeah, you know where then you know
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  where you've got like, your kid doesn't like school.
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  Then they're not going to want to go to an sdn school or an
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  Autism school because like to go to an awesome school, they're
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  going to be like, oh well schools all just rubbish, you
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  know, people die. Think along and get it.
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  It's gonna scare your kid off if you do, if you feel like that.
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  So it definitely start off with a not in school.
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  If that's like.you know you're chosen.
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  Part of you thinking, like should we take a kid who is an
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  Autism Spectrum condition? Should we take him to an awesome
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  school? I'd say yes, definitely try it.
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  And the good thing about it is, is the awesome schools are so
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  good. They could get I've seen kids go
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  in there and within a year to two years go to a mainstream
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  school. So it's not like they are going
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  to be there forever and never going to get out to go to a
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  mainstream school if that's what you want for them.
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  You know that the staff work really really well.
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  And I think that essien teachers and staff in general just
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  fantastic. So big salute to them.
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  Because they're just so good. That means said, guys, I'd like
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  to know your thoughts on it. Do you think SES schools are
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  good thing? Bad thing.
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  How do you think they work? Do you think awesome schools
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  should be on the increase of the integrating with the school's?
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  I don't know. It's a good topic.
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  It's a good discussion. So please give me a comment in
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  the comment section below. I read and respond to every
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