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I had to go have a meeting with the district to see if we could continue speech therapy services for DD. It would end in 2 months if not. So, they approved her for next year, September through June but not this summer! I was not having it!! Lucky I came in with some idea that they do it this way. Our speech therapist was on the phone teleconferencing in. He is not allowed to advocate and can only be impartial and answer the district's speech pathologist's questions about testing, etc. Well, to get to the point! DD has major articulation issues, all motor stuff. Well, they said they reserve the summer program for kids that have receptive language problems. he then started to define it all (which i knew so i cut him off, probably pissed him off) and I said "Well, what about the childrent that have no trouble with language but have problems oral motor issues? Why should DS have to have a 6 week lapse in services just to regress and start over in september??" They told me - get this..."Your daughter will be fine [note- they never met her, she was not at the meeting] She will catch up. We could show you children that have such problems you would cry. You would go home in tears." Um, huh? Wtf!!! I said "That's ridiculous" And i went on a bit of a tangent myself. In the end we got her the summer services too. My speech therapist called me after to say it's a good thing i spoke up after all that because he was not allowed to fight for us! Could only answer questions impartially and he's seen lots of parents sit there and not get services. Harummmpphh. I really feel for those of you with children that need you to fight for them and services all the time. It's no day at the beach.. Oh. and i did NOT thank them when they approved the servies. >I had to go have a meeting with the district to see if we could continue >speech therapy services for DD. It would end in 2 months if not. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Oh. and i did NOT thank them when they approved the servies. Good work. It always amazes me how many of us [us= people in general] don't fight for things we need, but take someone else's word as the final absolute on things. When buying cars, for example, many haggle, why not when dealing with things like this? Great job! I hope your DD just wows everyone with her progress and becomes a poster girl for the importance of continuing therapy during the summer and how much can be saved in the long run by doing so! -Aula > I had to go have a meeting with the district to see if we could continue > speech therapy services for DD. It would end in 2 months if not. > > So, they approved her for next year, September through June but not this > summer! I was not having it!! Lucky I came in with some idea that they do it > this way. > I said "That's ridiculous" And i went on a bit of a tangent myself. In the > end we got her the summer services too. My speech therapist called Good Job! Getting summer services is very hard. I never managed it for my daughter. It took so long to get evaluation appointments and for them to find time to fit her into their schedule that we didn't start until late winter/early spring. We got her started and she was beginning to make some good progress, but then we had our IEP meeting and they told us she was not eligible for summer services because she hadn't been receiving services long enough to qualify. That summer I paid to put her in a student teaching program at a university in a nearby city and found a good SLP to come to our home weekly and teach her. I continued to pay for the private SLP to come to our home even during the school year since the SLP was good and was willing to work on quality of life issues like helping my daughter learn to pronounce her own name so she could introduce herself to other kids at the park. We couldn't get that in the IEP since one of the sounds in her name wasn't an age appropriate skill. The next spring at our IEP meeting I tried to get summer services for her, but they said she didn't qualify since she hadn't regressed the previous summer without services. I pointed out that the reason she hadn't regressed was because I had paid for a summer full of speech therapy, but they said that the only way to show that she would be at risk for regressing would be to show regression without services. Since I was never willing to allow regression, I just continued to pay for private speech therapy in the summer. --Betsy > I had to go have a meeting with the district to see if we could continue > speech therapy services for DD. It would end in 2 months if not. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Oh. and i did NOT thank them when they approved the servies. I was with you and cheering for your success until the 'I did not thank them' comment -- my take, from my district, is that there's a whole lot of balancing going on, and depending on your reimbursement scheme, it may just be that the pot of dollars for services i(overall) is relatively fixed -- in other words, a service for person x means that person y doesn't receive services or materials -- yes, EI services are a given, but the dollars for them come from somewhere, or often, someone. The decision-maker is not in an enviable position, and (again, just my experience) has no malice -- its a hard job, and a thank you does go a long way. Kudos on getting services for your daugther, though. Caledonia >> I had to go have a meeting with the district to see if we could continue >> speech therapy services for DD. It would end in 2 months if not. [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > > Caledonia I understand your point but you weren't there. this woman had an attitude, was innapropriate and came down on me pretty hard. After all that I was *not* going to give this woman a personal "thank you" when she was following the guidelines and giving my daughter what she deserved and what our tax dollars pay for. I pay a LOT of money to school taxes in a district that can not provide a suitable program to either of my children, in turn I pay ALOT of money for private schools. DD fits the criteria for summer services for speech. This woman had no place comming down on me that way - thankfully DD was in school and didn't have to hear her! I DID thank the entire group as I left but when she announced that *she* was going to *give* us summer services I did not say "thank you " to HER. I did not cop an attitude and I wasn't rude to them, thanks were given for their time. BTW - our speech therapist was on phone conference and he agreed that I shouldn't have directly thanked her when she "awarded" us with summer services. he was SHOCKED by her outrageous comments > >> I had to go have a meeting with the district to see if we could continue > >> speech therapy services for DD. It would end in 2 months if not. [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > shouldn't have directly thanked her when she "awarded" us with summer > services. he was SHOCKED by her outrageous comments Too true -- and you're completely right, I've likely misread the situation. (As our tax bill is not yet in the five figures range, I'think I waffle with the guilt that we're likely consuming more service than we receive. Here, I think I always feel guilty as I know our tax bill doesn't cover the cost of services that we receive |
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