Re: Re: Son-Rise, Number of staff?

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Posted ByAutistic and proud on December 17, 1999 at 09:49:09:

In Reply to: Re: Son-Rise, Number of staff? posted byDoug on December 16, 1999 at 02:08:45:

:To put the cost of Son Rise into perspective, I have met a couple who do another form of home therapy with their autistic children called applied behavioral analysis. They were spending $8,500 per month, and took out a second mortgage on their house. They were involved in a lengthy legal battle with their school district to get the program paid for, and were mounting huge legal bill, too. In the meantime, they were miserable with this whole process, and were not the ones working with their child!

To put the cost into another sort of perspective, I work at a school for children with autism in the UK, which I think is not only excellent but positively extraordinary in its respect for and commitment for the pupils there. It provides an amazingly high teacher-pupil ratio, with some children having full-time assistants of their own (I was hired specifically to do one-to-one sessions of play/work with several children who it was felt would benefit), music therapy, TEACCH visual schedules to help make things comprehensible and predictable, and a multi-sensory room.

And how much do parents pay for this? Nothing - it's a local state school (even the multi-sensory room was funded by charitable donations).

I know that schools like this are rare (far too rare). But it shows that you shouldn't assume that education for autistic kids "naturally" has to have a huge price tag attached.

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Comments:: :To put the cost of Son Rise into perspective, I have met a couple who do another form of home therapy with their autistic children called applied behavioral analysis. They were spending $8,500 per month, and took out a second mortgage on their house. They were involved in a lengthy legal battle with their school district to get the program paid for, and were mounting huge legal bill, too. In the meantime, they were miserable with this whole process, and were not the ones working with their child! : To put the cost into another sort of perspective, I work at a school for children with autism in the UK, which I think is not only excellent but positively extraordinary in its respect for and commitment for the pupils there. It provides an amazingly high teacher-pupil ratio, with some children having full-time assistants of their own (I was hired specifically to do one-to-one sessions of play/work with several children who it was felt would benefit), music therapy, TEACCH visual schedules to help make things comprehensible and predictable, and a multi-sensory room. : And how much do parents pay for this? Nothing - it's a local state school (even the multi-sensory room was funded by charitable donations). : I know that schools like this are rare (far too rare). But it shows that you shouldn't assume that education for autistic kids "naturally" has to have a huge price tag attached.