ABA shadows in MS school

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Dear all
My son has been doing ABA therapy for about two years now, and is doing good progress. He started MS state school in September 2010 and he also has a Statement of SEN. At the moment he is doing 15 hours of ABA at home and he stays around 13 hours at school. The school is pressing for more hours but I can give more hours only if he can go with his ABA tutor and they have now said that they are not happy to have our ABA tutors at school, and not willing to follow ABA at school.
I want to know if any of you know if there are any private primary school in within Hertfordshire that are willing to work with ABA?

Many Thanks

I think there is an ABA school near you ?? Hitchin

I think a few people on here have had problems with Herts and ABA

Have any schools become academies and out of LA control? you might have more luck with schools where LA cannot exert influence.

Yes, there is,Crysalis school, but I'd like a main stream school. I just would like a school that could agree to have him as school part time for about one year so we could finish the therapy; and in this transition period my ABA tutors could go to school in order to liaise with home therapy. It's been very difficult with the main stream state school where he is at the moment, and I know that the LA is pressing the school for more hours and not having our ABA tutors there. At the moment we are paying for everything, so I don't understanding why they want him to go full time if we are so close to finish the therapy.
Thanks, Agnes

The best (only ?) way I found of getting ABA tutors into school as LSAs is to ask the school if they would interview them independently as a candidate for my son's LSA/ shadow. That way, it became the school's appointment and their ABAness was sort of irrelevant, as they had been hired as a bona fide LSA. Once in school they would use ABA techniques, and do some ABA work, while always making sure also to respect what the teacher was trying to do with the class and to join in the mainstream work, wherever feasible. This way is very different from asking whether the ABA tutors can go into school, but actually it amounts to the same thing. The trouble is that the mainstream system has been told to hate ABA, so you have to use some sleight of hand!