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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Denying your child accommodations and services that are necessary to their development, at a critical time in their growth, is willful neglect.[/b]

If your child does not need treatment or school services at this time, then you can choose not to pursue them now. But know that sometimes schools have IEP and 504 back-ups and need some time to set it all up; and that they might request an updated neuropsychological evaluation if it was done a long time ago. Waiting times for an evaluation and report can be several months long (6 months) at the best psychologists' practices. Then medication ramp-up takes several months if done with proper medical precautions at a psychiatrist's office. So all-in-all, for a child's wrap-around services and treatments to work, families and schools and experts need to work together for quite a while.

[b]As for the political situation, it is aberrant. When this administrations leaves[/b], no Republican or Democratic administration will pursue such fascist and authoritarian goals.

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And get ready for law enforcement to show up on your doorstep with this claim, because trying to out-logic a government in which commitment to individual rights and dignity is collapsing this fast is a fool’s errand.

This is not an aberration. It has been happening, just not to people like you. What exactly makes you think that this administration will “leave”?[/quote]

Are you OP? Were you just trying to troll on the Special Needs Forum? You're just not credible making such large claims. The administration has done terrible things to migrants, international students, people whose NIH clinical trials were cut off mid-trial, and vulnerable populations abroad dependent on USAID. It has generated a whole new cycle of terrorists with its strikes on Iran.

But from there to insulting everyone who doesn't believe we are now in a dictatorship without elections, is a trollish move unsupported by facts.

I have reported your prior posts. Watch out.
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I think you are making a mistake in reporting my posts, but that is up to you (and Jeff).

HHS has been very clearly lining up the elements of characterizing parents who are treating their kids’ ADHD, depression, and other conditions with psychotropic medication as engaged in a form of child abuse. This is in addition to a long history of parents with bad access to resources being treated as neglectful, when in fact they are poor. In some ways, it is the opposite.

But the fact that it is wrong and irrational does not matter: there is no hacking the logic of this administration. They have motives that have nothing to do with what is best for our kids, and they will put those motives into action whether it hurts our kids or not.

The only thing we can control is ourselves, so we have to do what we know to be right and not be trying to guess at what federal levers will eventually be brought to bear in retaliation for that. Not pursuing a 504 or IEP “due to political climate” does not square witu that.[/quote]

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