A post of our experience for families to learn from
Our son was diagnosed on the spectrum at 2 and a half. He wasn't very verbal but he did well in preschool.
When it came time for Kindergarten we applied to the Lang School.
They straight up told us your son will not be accepted because he is not twice exceptional.
We almost enrolled him in a more restrictive environment but luckily he was accepted into a charter school that ran like a Nest program including neurotypical students with neurodivergent students.
Fast forward to today. Our son is a sophomore at Brooklyn Tech with a 97 GPA, absolutely crushed his Regents last year including getting a 100 on the math regents, is currently taking 2 AP classes, and took the PSAT this year without test prep and got a 1370 including an almost perfect math score. While also doing athletics every season.
As a parent don't let anyone ever tell you what your child is or is not capable of. Take in the data and work hard and fight hard for them.