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[quote=Anonymous]Skills on the Hill is great for OT.  We saw Laura at Georgetown at one point for PT and liked her too, though I found the hospital based practitioners often decreased services or exited kids well before non-hospital based practitioners would have (was our experience and that of several friends).  We transitioned from GT for other reasons, but they were recommending a decrease before we did which I think would have be inappropriate (given she continued to need weekly for the next year and a half).  Not universal but happened often enough it makes me wary.  Also the negotiated rate was super expensive (well over $400 a session, I want to say close to $600, I could be misremembering but I know it was eye popping for the insurance allowance) - it didn't matter for us, because we were co-pay based, but it would have been a huge issue for an insurance that was co-insurance based.  Also not sure if they charge facilities fees.  So if you consider children's or GT, make sure you pin everyone down, insurance and provider both, on your responsibility and any extra fees they may charge.  We can't see anyone at either anymore because of insurance changes (no co insurance, and less coverage of hospital outpatient, probably for this reason) and extra fees.

National speech in DC was hit or miss and tough to schedule (also not on insurances I think?).  We had zero luck finding a close in speech person who could fit our schedule (basically not smack in the middle of working hours) and ended up out close to Potomac, which is horrendous travel wise.  I think we would have had to go equally far out in VA - Fairfax?  But if you have more flexibility on scheduling you'll have more options.  Or of course if you don't need insurance to cover it.

Might be worth calling some camps, even if they started they might operate weekly or monthly or be willing to put him in mid session for longer sessions - Katherine Thomas and Skills on the Hill both have camps.  I think Katherine Thomas might have done two week chunks, so you could still get in for theirs, and then Skills on the HIll probably started already, but don't know if they'd be open to adding a kid mid-session (want to say theirs was 6 or 8 weeks).  [/quote]

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