Re: Trouble finding help!? In Vermont???

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: Hi vincent,: : I’m not sure what you mean. Whitcomb high school (the high school in Bethel) though haveing many faults handeled it’s LD duties for me quite nicely for me, wonderfuly with out a shred of a leagal battle, and as you may have found out by reading some of the these post, the Steren center and Pine Ridge (though pine Ridge is a bit chaotic) are well desined to acomidate the non-verbal disabled, and thouse are only a few of the resores for NLD’ers. : Oh, I wasn’t talking specifically about schools, though I didn’t know one way or another how good they were about dealing with LD’s. (Barnard, in my day had a 4 room school for 8 grades, so it was REALLY tiny!) : I was talking about pure geography and demographics. There are LOTS of reasons that I don’t like living in a suburban area, but a concentration of people means you also have a concentration of services, and CHOICES of services. When we spent time in Barnard, we had to drive 1/2 an hour down the mountain to Woodstock to go grocery shopping… and that was in the summer, without snow. In a rural area, finding outside help for a child who was having school or emotional problems means traveling much longer distances.: I’m not talking so much about the Burlington area, because that is much more populous, and a “college town” to boot. I’m not surprised that there are good resources there. But Bethel is a fur piece from Burlington, and Barnard is even more off the beaten path. It’s half an hour just to get to I89. (or it was in my day) : : I got to say Karen I don’t what Vermont was like 25 years ago, but for as long as I rember Vermont as a state was always pretty open minded about such issues a special ed, (A state is got to be open minded to allow Civil Unions).: : Come to think of it, ecomical, and metorligical matters asid, I would bet it would be better to raise an NLD child in Vermont than in the Carolinas: It’s great to hear that your high school did such a good job meeting your needs. Believe me, if it were a viable option for us, I’d LOVE to live in a more rural area. But there always is that “economics” thing to consider… And it’s hard to move a CPA practice to another state. We have a little farm in a small town here in MA, but we’re still only about an hour outside of Boston (if it’s not rush hour!!!<g>) We’ll have to just continue to admire your rolling green mountains from afar!: Karen

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