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Though parents and teachers are an integral part of these children's educational experience, limited research has been conducted to deeply understand and facilitate parent-teacher relationships to offer CWA an improved learning experience in Bangladesh. Our in-depth qualitative study on urban parents (N=10) showed current challenges and opportunities relating to the schools designed for CWA. The work takes a closer look at the existing concerns and confirms that parent-teacher communication in autism schools here is a complex one because of other interferences (e.g., social, and familial stigma, lack of transparency from administrators, insufficient qualified teachers) as felt by the parents. 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