Early Intervention in DC?

[Anonymous]

She's a Speech-Language Pathologist
202.444.4180

[Anonymous]

We had a horrible experience with services in DC. We moved to Montgomery County when my son was 13 months old and things improved almost immediately. We had to wait three weeks for his first evaluation, which was in early July and therefore delayed due to summer schedules/July 4th, but we received 45 minutes of OT, PT and Special Ed each week immediately thereafter. We had to wait two months for speech.
Services in Montgomery County are free and the therapists will come to your home if you wish. We saved $600/month on services, since we had to pay on the sliding scale in DC. It ended up costing us less to have a house in Montgomery County than an apartment in DC due to the savings in services. (And the therapists were better and more coordinated amongst themselves than in DC. They have weekly meetings as a team, I think.)

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[Anonymous]

Despite all the hating on DC EI here, we had a great experience with early intervention in DC. Although it took some follow up calls we were eventually set up for therapy through Little Feet and Hands. LF&H are miracle workers in our family's opinion. At our next evaluation, the evaluator was shocked at our DD progress--she was months ahead of her goals. I can't say enough good things about Little Feet and DC Early intervention. At least try them, the waiting lists are so long at Georgetown and Children's you may not have other options.

And verfiy that Children's takes your insurance for each service you are trying to get. We had very bad experiences where inpatient my DD was seen by doctors there but then they would not take our insurance (BC/BS carefirst) for therapy services. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Our experience with DC public schools has been poor - we have been denied services given previously (and still needed) and some of the SLP and OTs were really of an inferior quality. Some even quit in the middle of the year when their company did not pay them. DCPS had contracted with the company for services. You also never get the same therapist for more than a year, so the starting over just goes on and on.

You may need to look at a charter school such as Bridges which has a good program with early intervention. It only goes to age 5. I would seriously consider living in Montgomery Co if you have a choice.

http://www.bridgespcs.org/index.php?page=about

We used Lynne Israel in Friendship Heights for OT and then Diane Lewis in Bethesda for S/L. We also did not wait for the school system to test and found our own pychologist for neuropsych testing later. If you do a search on these boards, you will also find other names of competent people.

[Anonymous]

Dear Anonymous, how I can ask you about your opinion on Zahava Alon, services and personality? I am looking for changing the service for my 2 years old child.
Can I email you personally?
Thanks,
G