ABA in school - what would you do?

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Please bear with me while I explain.

Sept 2009 girl. Starting reception in 2014. Nursery year - 10 hrs ABA in nursery, 12 hours at home. Privately funded. Tribunal in march 2014.

I visited the local schools and most said yes to the child but no to ABA. How do I name a school now?

• school F,local, good school, i know some mums. The senco and Ht said no to ABA. I can still name them, but they said they don't know enough about ABA to adopt it. Declined the offer to chat to my consultant, watch a session in progress, attend workshops, my tutors coming in. They spoke to current day care manager who acknowledges that the child has made progress but he doesn't agree with all the approaches on ABA(he has always agrued that my girl would have been fine without ABA. I don't get into that argument with him).
• school V, not local, told me they don't know anything about ABA. Dont want to know anything about us. But will take us and our program if the statement comes with funding.
• all other schools said no to ABA.

What would you do?

Name school F because it's local, and once they see ABA they will like it.

Name school V because they are going to take ABA so long as the funding is there. They are not local and dropoffs and pickups will add another complication to an already complicated asd family

Don't name a school and let the lea find a co-operative school. (I have spoken to them all already)

Ask for an out borough school(I have no clue where to start looking for one).

Ask for homeschool because none of the local schools can implement aba(their words not mine) and ABA is the only way this girl learns(EP has validated that).

Thanks!

Manish, I have visited the schools and none have said yes to ABA. Most said no. That is the issue here - what school should I name?

I don't know. Sometimes the school that is in special measures, has a head teacher that is struggling and an inexperienced SENCO can be the best for an unconventional programme, as they are perhaps the least likely to try to interfere and think they know best

If there are any locally that fit the description, I'd go and have a look. Don't touch an outstanding school, not even with a very long bargepole. For SEN, it almost always equates to anything but.

You could ask for a very expensive ABA school, with transport. Such as Rainbow and their friends www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/page/treehouse_school/teachingandlearning/abaschools.cfm

LA will probably suddenly decide that part-time ABA in local mainstream is something that ought to be facilitated

Sorry treehouse and their friends

dropoffs and pickups will add another complication

Could you get sibling preference points, and move the others? Easiest in a school in special measures, as they're not yet popular, but often improving so fast that the rubbish ofsted report is already out of date