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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether or not the designation is accurate, UMC parents can afford private testing plus tutoring and other supports to make 2e work for them. Poor parents can’t. The most 2e kid I ever met was the son of an undocumented nanny. He was severely dyslexic and dysgraphic, but had an astounding vocabulary and memory. He was stuck in self-contained SpEd reading and math classes purely because of how he was coded. [/quote]

Actually the rich and poor can afford it, it’s the middle folks who cannot.  Medicaid pays for evaluations and therapies, just not tutoring.  It is one of the few insurances that does pay. [/quote]

Hm, maybe maybe not.

Medicaid is state administered so that may affect policies, but I am aware of situations where state Medicaid has refused to pay for assessments, assistive technology, etc, deemed educational in nature. You also have to get the schools to read AND comprehend assessments, and you have to have good access to other resources for information, be it looking up laws and regs and state guidelines and procedures, stuff it's really hard to do if your internet access consists of a pay as you go smartphone where half the time you have to find a wifi connection to use the phone. Assessments are one thing--translating into services is a whole other game.

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