Re: Why do I even bother with therapy and iep

[Guest guest]

I reached the same place with our old school district. The therapy my son

got in school was worthless at best and a big hassle otherwise. It really

wasn't worth the fight. We got to the point where attorneys were involved

before deciding to call it quits. Thankfully we had an excellent private

therapist (at the Prompt Institute) and he made excellent progress. We

moved when he was 6 and the therapist at our new school district understood

apraxia and worked well with his language issues (my son also has a severe

undefined language delay that appears to be aphasia.)

Has the school explained why he has been moved to every other week? Was

this determined at an IEP? If not then they can't do that. Not that doing

something illegal seems to bother some school districts.

Is he in private speech therapy? I'd suggest looking into that route. If

insurance won't cover it there are creative ways that some can get grants

(United Healthcare, ish Rite) or perhaps you can received discounted

therapies at a teaching university.

Miche

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:57 AM, khaoskat <khaoskat@...> wrote:

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> Please, explain why I should even bother.

>

> They don't tell me we have been rescheduled with a new therapist and now

> suddenly without warning or advance notice they are telling us they are

> dropping him from weekly to every other week.

>

> It took me almost three months the last time he had a speech therapist

> switch to get him adjusted to where he would actually work and not play and

> not hide under chairs, etc...

>

> So, now with only going bi-weekly it is going to take forever before he

> will actually start working on things again. So why even bother. By the time

> we get him to where he will work, it is going to be almost time to switch

> therapists again. And it is going to extend the time he needs for therapy.

>

> Here are his scores:

> PLS -4: Receptive at the 98% SC of 130

> PLS -4: Expressive at 58% SC of 103

> PLS -4: Total Language at 88% SC of 118

>

> GFTA -2 at 4% SC of 67

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> Get it, Got it, Go score was 33

>

> (PLS - Preschool Language Scale; GFTA - goldman Fristoe Test of

> Articulation).

>

> What he receives from our local public school is a joke and does him no

> good. 85% of his progress the last two years was from the 9 months he spent

> in Early Intervention.

>