Anyone here ever attend special education?

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Just wondering what the experience was like being on the autistic spectrum. Have to figure out strategy for my kids entering the public school system.

Anyone care to relate their experiences?

I was in it from 2000 till 2006

I hated it
all it was, was a small room that I have a hard time calling a room it was a re-purposed supply closest with an uneven floor and no windows with a few other kids
we were just given a packet of busy work everyday that did not really matter if you did it or not. the three teachers just sat in the back of the room and talked to each other all day.

I had a bad experience with it maybe its better now I dont know.

My wife was forced into it for a year because she was 'different' (they never worked out it was autism).

From her description it was absolute hell and the equivalent of not having any education for a year - they didn't bother trying to teach as it was just treated as a dumping ground. She never recovered her confidence from that experience (being a year behind in school, and being known as the kid that went to the 'mental school' as it was known).

That would have been a few years ago. Maybe it's improved now.. I sure hope so.

I've been in Special Education classes for my entire life in school. I'll have to say my experience with the resource classes have been a better fit for me academically than a self-contained classroom, where they just group all developmentally disabled students into the room and make no attempt to teach us anything below the 6 grade level.

I spent the 5th grade in a special education class. In this case it was a class for students with learning difficulties who did not have intellectual impairments. It was the one year in school I was able to function throughout the entire year.

I also recall having a lot of influence on the class, as my interests seemed to drive things like the teacher having guests show up to talk to us (two related to disability - I was in love with the idea of service dogs) and a couple of field trips.

Edit to add: I was supposed to attend a high school that would accommodate my learning problems, but my parents decided not to send me, and I ended up failing through most of high school.

When I was in 5 grade (at least I think it was 5th), I went to a small room to learn speech. The class wasn't at my school, but at another school. My dad had to sneak out of work to come bring me back and forth to my speech lessons. He could have gotten into serious problems at work, but he took that risk. It wouldn't have been so bad, if it wasn't during school hours. But by my luck, it was in the afternoon on Friday (when my school would have mass or rosary). I remember once my dad couldn't get there to bring me, and I spent the afternoon on the front steps of my school waiting. All I remember from the actual classes if making faces in the mirror, and the feeling of curiousity of students who didn't wear uniforms. (My always mental illness caused me to believe that kids without uniforms had magic powers and weird stuff like that, but I might have been told that by someone and just believed it.)

4th grade to 10th grade. After that, I stopped getting signed up for them. Both senior year classes of mine were actually chosen by moi. C'est magnifique, eh? Or maybe it was pre-school till 10th grade? Just in public school. My new school is not well-known yet.

At the moment I am currently in special education and had been so ever since this january, which has actually been after one year and a halfs wait in a non-educated state. The source of education I've been having is during my previous 1-1 private classes which sadly I'd only attended one every few weeks, thankfully I have now gotten back into education and have luckly been able to settle in well once again.

I had been placed in special education since kindergarten all the way through 12th grade. The system has failed to help me succeed academically, that left me behind in math, as well as reading. As a result of that I had to take developmental courses at a community college, eventually catching up to college level reading, and Math. I was taking "basic mathematics" course when I first started attending community college, it's the lowest math level that the college probably doesn't offer that math course anymore. Whereas now I'm currently taking Trigonometry, and plan to take Pre Calculus, Calculus I, II, & III.

Anyways back to the topic. I would of preferred being placed in regular ed. instead of special ed. The reason that I was placed in Special Ed. was because I didn't talk much, and had moderate to severe speech delay according the papers that the school psychologist wrote at that time.

No just tutoring for math and then I was not in the highest level math. I would sit in the class and play hang man with some friends. Now I realize I have visual spatial deficits and that is why I was not great at math. I moved around often as a kid and sometimes went to really good private schools and other times to not so good schools. In college I did fine and went to tutoring for algebra and chemistry.

I spent most of grade 4 at a school for kids who could not beheave/function in school(a couple of were un-dxed/mis-understood aspies like myself who had no real issues at all) and it was a special education school as far is the work we were doing, I think instaid of following the IEPs they just dumbed the work down so we could all do it. I had to be dropped from french class when I returned for grade 5 as it was not offered there so I was a year behind, I and 1 other did homework in the special ed room during french class. I also had to be cought up in alot of the achidemics, I saw the major difference in the work, I was allowed a calculater 2 years early to help catch up in math.

My normal elementry school used to mix in special ed classes for certin harder topics and tests now and then, also grade 7/8 had 2 or 3 math classes geared toward the kids abillies, I got forced into the lowest level one, the mid level one was in my home room and I did not want to leave the room and my desk with all of my equipment, I tryed to make it then failed so the teacher made a snap choice to move me out.

Segerigation is something I would try to avoid partly for peer social reasons, bad teachers like meny that ran special ed in my school make it that much worse. Most of the Special Ed staff were bullys, abuseive both emotionally and physically and were not trained for the job they had.

I was in special education. My experiences were a long time ago because I quit school almost 22 years ago so they probably aren't relevant.

In sixth grade they took me out of some regular classes and put me in the special classes.
In seventh grade and eighth grade I was in different schools each year in the special class.
After that I did a court ordered 30 day evaluation in a mental hospital and went to school at their day treatment program for a while. Then I had to go to family court again and that time my mother got a free lawyer and I had to go to another special school but I didn't have to live there. Then I had to go to family court again and got sent away to what was pretty much a reform school where I turned 16 and quit school when I got out. All my family court visits were for skipping school.

I don't think the education I got at them was very good.