School Visits

We visited two schools yesterday. One school has beautiful amenities, handicapped accessible everything including THREE playgrounds, a fully equipped therapy room with sensory swings, mats, climbing stairs, etc, and a great special needs class. It also has no SEE-- the aid Connor would possibly be assigned knows ASL, which might as well be Greek to him. The other school has a non-handicapped accessible playground, a gymnasium for a therapy room with all of the stuff piled behind a couple of tables, outdoor walkways between buildings (which means Connor will be out in the rain a lot) and a great class where everyone except the peer mentor (who has a deaf sibling), including the teacher, is Deaf or HoH and SEE or PSE is used for all teaching. Everyone in the class (except for Connor, if he goes there) is otherwise a typical kid without special needs.

So we have a hard decision to make. Do with go with the school with great facilities and a classroom with curriculum more suited to Connor's current development but no SEE? Or do we go with the school with poor facilities but typical peers and Connor's form of communication?

~Jess