🏫 To be written by the founding 100

Education & schooling

There's no single right way to educate an autistic child — only the right way for your child, this year. Six paths, all treated with equal respect, each to be filled with what actually happened in founders' meetings, classrooms and kitchens.

The six paths — frameworks ready

1 · Public / state school

IEP & EHCP advocacy, meeting scripts, inclusion vs specialist classes — from founders who fought these battles.

2 · Private special education

How founders evaluated, toured, and funded purpose-built schools — and what they'd ask on a tour now.

3 · Homeschool

Curricula that worked, co-ops, legal basics by country, and the honest hours-per-day answer.

4 · In-patient programs

The path with the most stigma and the least honest conversation anywhere — except here.

5 · Outpatient / day programs

IOPs and PHPs as a bridge — founders' experiences of getting in, and of coming back to school.

6 · Home instruction & school refusal

When a child cannot attend — negotiating with districts, low-demand rebuilding, PDA-informed approaches.

Founders: which path are you on? Tell it in the School, IEPs & EHCPs group or as a story — including the messy middle, not just the ending. Not a member yet? Claim a founding place →