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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks to those of you who have honestly and non-snottily answered the question.  (We do not have the luxury of endless income, so the reality is that, while I could take a paycut, it will be hard.  And long-term, cutting my hours will affect our family income in ways that we can't necessarily afford or predict.)

Can FMLA be taken in onesies-twosies?  My understanding was that it couldn't, but maybe that's a company level requirement?  A previous employer didn't allow that.

The nanny option -- do you who have nannies find that the nanny is able to give you good feedback about what is going on in therapy?

PP, the reason I feel like starting school will help is that we just got into the ChildFind system and some people have told me we'll be borderline, but I have the records of her private evaluations and so I suspect she will receive some services through the county.[/quote]

I'll answer about the nanny.  It really depends on who you hire.  We were extremely lucky, our nanny was getting a masters in speech pathology so she was able to do a TON Of exercises with DS in addition to all the stuff he did at his private SLP.  She also drove DS to his OT and social groups appointments.  We always had very detailed feedback from her.  Sometimes she would try smth new like a new merit chart or a new activity and then report back to us.  It was through her we found a lot of activities geared towards SN children like adapted taekwando and gymnastics.  She was a godsend and we think that she was the main reason why DS was so well-prepared to enter K.  Sure, we had an IEP ready before he started school but academically and socially he was ready.  [/quote]

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