Sorry - I mean your daughter.
It is my understanding the PA is divided into Intermediate Units, and that it is these IUs that provide and coordinate special ed services. The following is a link of the map of PA IUs.
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/Bureaus/pdPlanRes.nsf/in foBPR_Education_PA_Intermediate_unit
Services can vary from IU to IU. I recommend that you contact the IU in the area you are interested in moving, and ask about the specific services they would provide for your son. Work you way down the chain until you get to the teacher that would be in your son’s classroom, and if possible, visit the classroom prior to making a final decision. It is often the specific teachers/classroom your child is in that makes a difference. The quality can vary throughout the IU.
Here is a link for IU contact info.
Hope that is helpful.
Don't know what to tell you, but I just saw a post by someone doing research in Pittsburgh. It was moved to the Hangout. Perhaps you can reply to her & get some info from somebody in the field AND in the locale.
By the way, she is a doctoral candidate and might be interested in spending time with your son. That's how we hooked up with our speech therapist...met her through a university project where she and Cole spent 3 hours per day, 4 days per week for 4 weeks together. We hired her as a "tutor" before her degree was done, and now she helps us 3 hours a week with therapy.
By the way, the week of Thanksgiving, the Carnegie Museum (awesome!!!) reopens its magnificent dinosaur display. They also do family sleepovers at the museum, and we're flying up from New Orleans to do the first one in the dino hall! Check it out!
Her thread is Survey on Autism Spectrum Disorders but it looks like its sociology. Maybe she'll have local links, though. Good luck.Here is another post from a member from your area:
http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=20604&am p;am p;PN=2