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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kennedy Krieger In Baltimore has a cancellation list where they call you day of or the day before to come in to an appointment.  I only waited 3 weeks after submitting paperwork before getting called off the cancellation list, so if you have flexibility to drop your job for 2 days and run to the evaluation, you could get in much much faster.[/quote]

Second this.  We got in within 2-3 months, would have been sooner if I'd been able to take the first 2-3 cancellations they called with (the one we could take was a tad further out than normal, a few days, which helped).  Children's also told us we could call them for cancellations, but that seemed like a lot of effort for unlikely payoff.  Also if you're doing one of KKI's clinics (multiple specialties/evaluators) often they can get you into a portion of the clinic before a full appointment opens up, and then you can speed things up.  So we started with behavioral psych, and they referred for developmental and speech two weeks out.  It worked out better that way since there was no way my 3 year old could handle more than 1 appointment at a time anyway.  Basically once you're in with one element of the clinic, you have faster access to the others.

Not sure if Children's works that way - but our wait for them was 6-8 months, 6 if we were willing to drive to a satellite office (you have to call those offices - Rockville, and maybe Fairfax? directly to see about availability).  And they never call with cancellations.

Those may really be the only options on insurance...

Can I ask why you need a developmental eval to help him catch up?  I mean, I think it's a good thing to pursue, often adds something to the picture, but there's lots you can do in the meantime, and it's often easier/faster to get piecemeal evaluations for each specialty (speech, for example) and start private services there.  I guess it may be best to look at why the eval is recommended - what questions they're supposed to be answering/information they're supposed to be giving you, and then see if you can get any of that from individual providers/areas in the meantime.

OH...also, to the extent EI recommended a developmental evaluation, THEY have to provide it - it's part of their evaluation responsibilities, if they think it's necessary to identify needs/whats going on.  DC indicated we needed an autism and neurological/developmental evaluation, and sent us to Weinfeld Group for it (they don't do them in house).  So I might really push back on that...  (but expect them to back down from the recommendation, rather than provide, unless they're DC in which case they actually seemed to be on top of things, I didn't have to push at all)[/quote]

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