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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - we absolutely cannot supplement with more speech. I SAH, and we already qualify for zero payments since our income is so low. We paid a year of private speech for our older child in addition to preschool. We need to save money now for the twins' preschool coming up. Maybe I need to look into changing therapists. I feel like we just barely make it through the hour. In fact, we don't even use the whole hour doing stuff. I complained to our service coordinator earlier in the year because I felt like the activities that their therapist picked were so developmentally inappropriate. She did make changes and started doing a better job in my eyes. But, like I said before, it looks on the surface like a waste of time. [/quote]

Check with your insurance.  We had to fight for it, but eventually our insurance did approve it and now pays.

Request a new therapist.  We went through several therapist.  We paid privately for one and we stopped as due to the cost/benefit.  From 2-3, it was a waste of time.  At 3, things are much improved and the interest to talk is there.  Huge difference.  We tried two different pathologists - one just sang songs and play games.  We went several times.  It was a 45 minute drive.  She would only see us once a week for 30 minutes.  She insisted my child could not do longer, when he could easily do 60-90 minutes and often longer.  It was not worth the drive to do puzzles and sing songs with her on her cd player.  Went to another one who did nothing but talk to me over my child.  Went back to the first one (who knew we left for insurance reasons and was supportive) and that six month difference was huge.  My child was much more engaging (she always was) and now we see great improvements.  Not every therapist is a good fit for each family/child(ren).  Its ok to request a new one and keep requesting till you find that fit (though with early intervention they may not allow that).

Personally, if they are making progress, then I'd wait a little longer then private pay.  If they don't catch up with speech, they are going to have a tuff time in preschool depending on the school and how comfortable they are with the delay.    [/quote]

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