Help me with this therapy workaround

[Anonymous]

We really liked the Childrens Therapy Center in Sterling and they were in-network for several insurance companies.

There is another place in South Riding that also takes insurance called Teach Speech, they do ST and OT but we haven't used them, an acquaintance was happy there though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We really liked the Childrens Therapy Center in Sterling and they were in-network for several insurance companies.

There is another place in South Riding that also takes insurance called Teach Speech, they do ST and OT but we haven't used them, an acquaintance was happy there though.

I spoke with Children's Therapy Center in Ashburn but did not realize they did OT as well. I will look into Teach speech, thanks!

[Anonymous]

Also, there are speech therapy website where you can print out practice pages for certain sounds. I would look up the ones for the sounds she just acquired and practice them at home.

[Anonymous]

I'm still stuck on why a speech therapist wants to see the IEP before they do their own eval. You should pay them to do a thorough eval, without seeing anything but the child. That way, they give their own assessment of what the child needs - not influenced by someone else's eval.

You then take the private eval and give it to the school system as your own evidence of why the school needs to continue services at school during the day. It is a huge burden on families to have to secure private services - both in terms of time and finances. I beat this theme into my IEP team at school until they understood.

And now that your child will be entering K, it's going to be even harder to schedule and meet outside appointments for therapy.

I 100% think you should present as many private evals as you can get and then make the school give services based on the private evals. Never rely on the school to do the evals (and be honest).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still stuck on why a speech therapist wants to see the IEP before they do their own eval. You should pay them to do a thorough eval, without seeing anything but the child. That way, they give their own assessment of what the child needs - not influenced by someone else's eval.

You then take the private eval and give it to the school system as your own evidence of why the school needs to continue services at school during the day. It is a huge burden on families to have to secure private services - both in terms of time and finances. I beat this theme into my IEP team at school until they understood.

And now that your child will be entering K, it's going to be even harder to schedule and meet outside appointments for therapy.

I 100% think you should present as many private evals as you can get and then make the school give services based on the private evals. Never rely on the school to do the evals (and be honest).

The speech therapist doesn't need to see the IEP before an eval. I did not even request the eval, I just called and asked how to get my child enrolled at the therapy center and they said bring a current IEP with stated goals. The eval only came up when someone here suggested it when I said I don't have a current IEP with goals listed because her IEP at the moment only has the goal as "maintaining progress" since I refused to terminate and demanded reevaluations.

[Anonymous]

I've never been required to bring the school IEP. They have requested it as supplemental information but everyone has done their own evaluation to identify what kind of therapy is needed to meet the child's needs. You should call and talk to someone else or go somewhere else. And, I appreciate the school IEP team member who impressed upon her team the resource commitment of separate evaluations and therapies. it is intense.