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[quote=Anonymous]I totally agree.  There are so many providers out there that are perfectly happy to keep taking your money, and I'm afraid before we got more savvy in the realm of speech therapy, we took the bait that "it might take months to see improvement."  So much of it is about the relationship though (mostly with the child, but parents too), and honestly, I often saw things that told me I should have cut the ties right away, but kept on going for fear that I was being too picky when DC really needed the help.

Just to add my own caveat, beware too of providers who try to diagnose your child with something when they are not qualified to do so.  When one of our children was small, not quite 3 years old, we switched to a new speech therapist after our old one left the state.  She was all over the place as a therapist, seemed very disorganized and just could not seem to engage my kid.  I persevered even though my gut said no and then she began trying to hard sell me about getting our kid evaluated for autism.  We were so blindsided with shock and worry (though not being concerned about autism ourselves) that we didn't start connecting the dots when she just happened to have a very close colleague, a BCBA, who had worked with autistic kids for decades and ran an ABA therapy clinic.  Pretty sure she was working for this clinic on the side and funneling clients into ABA whenever possible.  After lots of expensive testing later, our kid was not on the spectrum, but had anxiety and mild attention deficits.

There are so many awesome providers out there – but there are enough who will prey on your fear of "don't you want to do the best for your child?" that you may go down the wrong paths and ignore your instincts.  Always remember you know your child better than anybody.[/quote]

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