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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious what you mean by price gouging? How much are you paying? I also find it absurd that people have no problem paying a hair dresser with no college weekly $250, yet they will balk at the price of my professional SLP services to help their child communicate with them when I have a masters degree and many, many years of clinical experience and I charge half that rate! [/quote]

I think it stems from the weekly bills.  DS sees a therapist that is $100/week.  So that's $400/month.  He's 15 now and life is much easier.  But when he was young, I was paying an SLP, a therapist, and an OT each week.  It's not that one provider is too much.  It's that combined, with all the recommended services, it becomes cost and time prohibitive.  I'm not paying my hairdresser $250/week.[/quote]

This! That PP with a master's degree sounds clueless.

It's the relentless amount of therapy and how they can add up to hundreds of dollars a week with no end in sight.

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I’m both a SN provider and the mom of a kid with SN and pricey therapies, so I’ve been on both sides of the issue. The costs are relentless and out of reach for so many people. That is absolutely true.

That doesn’t make a professional charging a reasonable rate for their expertise price gouging. It makes our education and health systems irresponsible and ineffective - families shouldn’t have to pay for their kid to be able to speak, go to school, read.

I charge $110 an hour and given the logistics, prep time, etc for the service I provide I can only fit in 15 sessions a week, max, though it works out to at least 35 hours of work a week. I’m trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage and buy my kid a new winter coat, not bathing in caviar and champagne.[/quote]

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