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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We saved money by doing much of the tutoring and therapy ourselves - and when I say us, I mean mostly me :-)

My child was born premature with a global developmental delay, which were then refined into a speech delay, severe ADHD, mild ASD, dysgraphia and gross and fine motor tone/coordination issues.

Until he was 3, his PT, OT and speech was free and administered by Montgomery County ChildFind. We paid for private speech from 3 until K, and then his IEP at school gave him hours with the school SLP, who was great.

I observed all his toddler/preschooler sessions and replicated them intensively every day so he could improve faster. The ChildFind therapists gave us a lot of items to work with. Once he was out of PT and OT, I enrolled him in regular gym, ballet and swimming, and worked with him on handwriting and fine motor skills at home. I also tutored him academically every day in elementary.

For secondary school, we paid for a writing tutor. My husband took over the math and science tutoring, until he got to AP exams and ACT test prep, which we paid for.

He needed an executive function coach day in, day out, so hiring one was out of the question. We were his executive coaches.

Point is: pace yourself, OP. Our kid had serious needs, and we knew we had do a lot of the work ourselves, for as long as we could, to make it work financially.

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Second sitting in on sessions so you can replicate at home and ask questions at the end. [/quote]

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