Schools in the South?? I am up north so I might not be much help. Are you looking for a dayprogram and are willing to move or are you looking for a boarding school or are you looking for a program more specific for kids who don't yet have functional language? There is a place (I believe they also have a school) in Austin, Texas who teaches with the rapid prompting method. It seems to be an approach that has worked for  moderate to lower functioning kiddos but it is still pretty new and kind of different. http://www.halo-soma.org Beyond that I do not know the south that well.I believe RDI is based in Houston but I think their school is in LA.  I live up north but my city has two charter school specifically for asd kids. The k-5 has kids at all functioning levels as well as kids with other disorders loke Down Syndrome and the high school chater specializes in kids on the higher functioning end. Maybe there are some charter schools like that where you live, you could check your states charter directory. Well, I have had a icky day. J is 4...still functionally non-verbal...moderate ASD. We have been attempting to research some ASD schools for him to attend.  Of course, our first calls were to the biggies like The Howard School in Atlanta, Chatham Academy at Royce in Savannah, The Marcus Institute School at Emory, etc. All I'm hearing is "he needs to be verbal and moderately functional to be admitted." Are there no strictly ASD schools in the South? FL, GA, SC, NC, AL?? Maybe even, dare I dream, a school where he isn't expected to be functionally verbal at 5? I have no idea what the future holds in terms of development for Jack...but I'm trying to plan ahead. And yes, we do adore our school system....but we would like to get him the most specialized, skilled services possible.... Here is a list of ABA schools in the United States: http://rsaffran.tripod.com/schools.html#USA . I'm sure there are also some schools that are not ABA-based, especially in NC, where TEACCH is so prevalent. Nicole Here in Sarasota Fl where I live there is a school. It is private so I'm not sure if that will work for you. My son does not go to this school but probably would have considered it if he was younger when we moved here. He is now higher functioning and is verbal so we are working on getting him mainstreamed in the public school. Here is the link. http://www.thepinnacleacademy.com/       Please keep in mind that the public schools in florida are terrible, we are leaving to go up north in May. Good Luck!! There really are very few if any other than what you mentioned. I've been trying to move from GA/SC for years... GA was horrible. They did come up with this nice scholarship that you could pull your child out of their public special ed program (after they fail to provide for a whole year) and they will give you a piddly amount towards a private setting (you also give away any iep rights, and if you go back to public school you have to go through screening and EVERYTHING again).  Then, good luck finding an ASD school too. I ended up homeschooling due to lack of options. If you have the finances to afford those private schools...I'd stay close to certain large Atlanta counties that have gone through the Emory programs.  Where up north, ryansmom? I'm trying to move this year finally. I HAVE to. Can't figure out where still though....so hard
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