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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a definition somewhere of institutional level of care, and it has something to do with how many hours per week the person needs therapy or special services, and so if your child requires X number of therapy hours or nursing attention or other special services per week, your kid could qualify even with an ASD diagnosis. The best thing to do would be to call DC Health Care Finance to ask.[/quote]

I held off applying for the Katie Beckett waiver for my son for over a year even after our Early Intervention service coordinator suggested it, because I felt like the "institutional level of care" standard meant it was not for him--he doesn't need to be institutionalized. But as the PP says, this term is misleading; in fact the criteria they apply just says if the child needs a certain number of hours per week of services, they qualify. (I don't know the # of hours.) We applied and received the waiver for our son who has global developmental delays.

I second the recommendation to call Family Voices of DC, specifically their Executive Director, Doreen Hodges. She is very committed to helping families through the (somewhat confusing) Katie Beckett application process. Here is her[/quote]

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