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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are reading too much into OP's question.

I think he/she meant she was trying to gauge whether her child would be able to enter K without services (and that this would be a good thing) if they used county services or if they should go without or use private.

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OP:  Yes. Thank you.[/quote]

And the honest 9and frustrating) answer is 'it depends.'

Usually county services are only available to children who have pretty serious delays; not every child with some sort of delay even qualifies, and most continue to need some help when they enter school. This doesn't mean the services were ineffective, but rather that there may be a gap which was reduced but not quite closed. And some children never fully close the gap.

And some do get services as a preschooler and never need them again.

My child qualified for speech and OT via the county as a toddler. DC continued to receive school services in elementary school but by middle school didn't need them / didn't qualify. I think that's pretty typical.

Our approach was to throw as many therapies and resources at our child as he/we could handle when he was young in hopes that when he was older, and probably less compliant, they would not be needed. I will never know whether that was a good or bad strategy but i will say that he barely remembers the years spent going to speech or OT now (as a teen). [/quote]

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