Re: Re: Re; Speech Therapy transferring from public to private school question

[Guest guest]

My son was placed in a private preschool setting by the IEP team.

Unfortunately the sped director barred implementation of the IEP.

There was another child at the same preschool who had public school

therapists come to the preschool to provide therapies and they paid

full tuition. With my son we fought from Sept - Feb and they finally

sent a therapist in March (and she was useless for him) and their

attorney agreed with ours and they had to reimburse all costs of

private therapy for my son when they were not implementing the IEP.

They never did pay the tuition, instead the sped blocked the IEP and

said they could meet his needs in the public pre-k (they couldn't) but

we got something.

I know another child in that same district who was voluntarily pulled

from 3rd grade to homeschool. The school continued to provide

therapies (speech and OT) for the rest of the year and again the next

year. It does happen!

Sometimes, like in our current case, it's the general ed that makes a

parent choose to pull their child. We're homeschooling again and had

the district offered speech I would have brought him to the school for

it. Unfortunately they didn't offer, but we have good private

services partially covered by insurance so I didn't try to fight it.

His school SLP last year did understand apraxia and while it wasn't

the best or most effective therapy she offered it was good.

Miche

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:08 AM, <agirlnamedsuess@...> wrote:

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> I wonder how plausible it is to think that a public school system and their

> officials would " agree " in an IEP meeting to pay for private school and

> agree that the child should be pulled out of the SD. That would be admitting

> that their service is not good enough. If one is getting poor service from a

> public institution, I would guess that itinerate services from the SD when

> the child enrolls elsewhere would not be any different. I cannot imagine

> that one would still seek the assistance from public school after

> withdrawing to attend the private school.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I have a Daughter with a severe verbal Apraxia, plus she done a surgery in both

ear (ear tubes) regarding ear infections, Now the school want to pull her out

from the placement, as they said if she had an academic needs or educational

needs they will not take her out from her placement, I dout their assessment is

not right, but Iam wondering they cut also the bus transportation, also she was

before in regular class, receving 20min/speech pull out from the class.

Now they want to give her speech private , as they said she does need only

speech, but I feel she needs

OT, also how come they said she is ok with the academic goals.

I didnt sign the IEP, as now iam in STAY PUT, didnt receive anything, So i think

they have to do independent assessment.

Thanks,

Caroline

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From: seeramona <lorirosen@...>

Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 7:37:42 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Re; Speech Therapy transferring from public

to private school question

I can say that my daughter's school district agreed they couldn't meet her needs

and agreed right off the bat to pay for her placement in a private school that

has an apraxia program starting at preschool. We just had her annual IEP and the

school district agreed without any discussion that they will pay for her 2nd

year of preschool at this private school placement. So, it can and does happen,

though many parents do have to fight for such placement.

Lori

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> > I wonder how plausible it is to think that a public school system and their

officials would " agree " in an IEP meeting to pay for private school and agree

that the child should be pulled out of the SD. That would be admitting that

their service is not good enough. If one is getting poor service from a public

institution, I would guess that itinerate services from the SD when the child

enrolls elsewhere would not be any different. I cannot imagine that one would

still seek the assistance from public school after withdrawing to attend the

private school.

> > I thought the idea of the special needs scholarship voucher was not only to

place your child elsewhere, but also to say that the SD is not doing their job

adequately enough. Depending on the extent of the child's disability, the check

will increase accordingly. With enough disability and services, the school has

to pay for someone else to provide that service when the child is withdrawn.

Limited issues would reduce the funds. More issues=more money that can be used.

> > A parent does not have to hold an IEP meeting and get the " consent " of the

IEP team in order to transfer a child. A new IEP will be formed anyways at the

new school, as the new school has the option of rendering a brand new IEP based

on their own evaluations. Under stay put provision, the same services the child

is curently receiving have to remain in place until a new IEP is made.

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