Re: getting EI to give PROMPT therapist

[Guest guest]

I am worried about my transition to school as well. I really feel you are

going to need a proper diagnosis and I have heard an SLP is not enough. I

know others have cautioned against making it adversarial and using an advocate

but I am contemplating bringing one with me to my final meeting. I have

already been told by my school district they can't guarantee the SLP I am

assigned will know oral motor or be trained in Prompt or Kauffman. They also

are not guaranteeing individual therapy. As far as your current situation,

if you only have a few months left I'd probably just let it go. I hate to

say it but I have found that no manner of persuasion has helped in changing

their mind. I did just get a survey from my state regarding the services and

I plan to be quite vocal.

Good luck!

Sue

[ ] getting EI to give PROMPT therapist

my son's PROMPT therapist quit EI weeks ago and we have a replacement that

doesn't use Kaufman cards or PROMPT or even go in his mouth.

How can I get EI to give my son the PROPER apraxia therapist. We do not have a

diagnosis...so if I go and get one- is it worth the thousand dollars in

evaluation to present to EI? will this drag into a long due process and by then

my son hits age three and I start the whole process again with the school

district?

Has anyone fought Early Intervention for the correct therapy- or " what we get is

what we get " -- that is what they tell me. They say I lucked out with my previous

ST.

Also- I think the neurologists have a long wait list- so I would have to get an

eval from a SLP in apraxia and are these good enough to present to EI?

thank you for your help and advice.

Iveta

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[Guest guest]

I am lucky that my 3 year old son is receiving Kaufman therapy from the school

district but he is in group therapy and there is a different child with him

depending what day of the week it is.� So far I've been told that without a

medical diagnosis the school district does not have to provide one on one

therapy.� I'm going to keep fighting and I think an advocate is a good

idea!!� I'm tired of the " nice " approach.� These are our children!

By the way, I'm taking him to a dev. ped. in 3 weeks.�

[Guest guest]

If your child is fixing to transition to the school district, I say just wait

and see what the school district tells you.� If the school district does

NOT�conclude that it is Apraxia�and you disagree with their evaluation, you

can request for the school district to pay for a private evaluation.� I wish I

would have known this...

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In some school districts, you really have to fight.� You have to have a

medical diagnosis for Apraxia in order to receive " one on one " therapy in the

school district.� If you don't, they do not have to comply with anything.

[Guest guest]

It may depend on the SLP. When a world renowned SLP reports back to the

pediatrician and then the ped writes up apraxia it carries some weight.

So technically in my son's case it was the SLP diagnosing, but it had the

weight of a pediatrician that agreed along with an earlier neurologist eval

that listed a couple possibilities, one of which was apraxia.

If you can get an SLP to write it up as apraxia would your pediatrician sign

off on the medical diagnosis?

Miche

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:38 AM, <NotefrmSue@...> wrote:

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> I am worried about my transition to school as well. I really feel you are

> going to need a proper diagnosis and I have heard an SLP is not enough.

>