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Forwarded from another list. I think Rebecca Cort of NYSED/VESID is very big on keeping down reported no.'s of kids w/autism in schools in NYS, so ... if you have info/evidence/ experience w/this, please reply to the reporter. ____________ ___
Newsday looking for Parents of ASD kids in districts that report no Posted by: "John Gilmore" yogilmore@yahoo.com Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:44 am (PST) Newsday is doing a story on the increasing numbers of children on LI with autism and the wild variations in the number of kids with autism that appear in the official school district reports.
Newsday would like to speak to parents of kids with an autism diagnosis who have had that diagnosis refused by a school district, and they would like to talk to parents of children with an autism diagnosis in the school districts that officially report no kids with autism which include :
New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free Valley Stream 24 Union Free School District Sagaponack Common School District Wainscott Common School District New Suffolk Common School District Fire Island Union Free School District Fishers Island Union Free School District Springs Union Free School District Little Flower Union Free School District Oysterponds Union Free School District Amagansett Union Free School District Quogue Union Free School District Bridgehampton Union Free School District Remsenburg-Speonk Union Free School District Shelter Island Union Free School District Tuckahoe Common School District Montauk Union Free School District East Quogue Union Free School District Greenport Union Free School District