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[quote=Anonymous]I'll offer a counter position.

In a private school with a private OT, I'm surprised they aren't offering more communication. The other posters seem to suggest you should expect this.

But.... OTs, like all of these therapists and providers, are grossly underpaid for the skilled services they provide.  And parents seem to expect a lot of free support beyond the actually paid for services. I suspect the OT brought in by a private school (even when billed to the parents) has the worst of all of this - because every single parent at private school thinks they're entitled to "just a little" free time of the provider.  If every parent wants just 15 minutes of free time every week, then the provider is spending 25% of their time providing free services (45 minutes of therapy for each kid plus 15 minutes of parent call).  I think that's unreasonable, and I bet in the private school setting, they set up this "you have to pay us for our parent time" system because so many parents were demanding beyond the 15 minutes of free time.

Ultimately, i think all these non-MD providers for our SN kids, all of whom are women, are super underpaid and we should be supporting women in these important roles, instead of undercutting them.  If there was a stereotypically male profession who spent time on campus, would you expect the same low rates and free services?  Although it's hard to even think of a male analogy, because we relegate all these low pay care jobs to women. We just wouldn't even expect men to go into these low pay jobs, let alone give us free support.

Just my two cents in trying to support women in these roles. [/quote]

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