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I am out of the area and did alert a key person in the Washington Post's education section who said it would be looked into to see if the public should be informed.  I came at it from an initial post indicating that the Archdiocese was suing the DCPS about not being willing to provide services to children in DC who have an IEP, but go to a private school for various reasons.  They were basing it on the fact that services are provided by Montgomery County for children at parochial school sites.  It certainly seemed like a win in giving more families options and possibly for DCPS with fewer legal cases.  We get the Washington Post where we live, but I guess it did not come up to the level of a big story as it seems one can coast by legally with "coaching."

However, my daughter who is a therapist in a preschool setting has said they all had to attend a workshop on Coaching and not just the idea of a PT. OT or ST coaching a parent  on what to do an EI setting, which she agreed is often a part of the model of direct in-home therapy, but rather they are now to be viewed as "EI Coaches on all therapies" - without any need to even take any online training in what each other does in the most basic sense.  Further more in a school setting you have to consider "who" you are coaching to work with a child - and many at least assistants or child care teachers themselves may not have that much of a formal education.  In her view it would be "dumbing down" and taking direct services away from children.  She is looking to get out to go to a private practice or hospital based program where therapists are still going to be providing services one is trained for.[/quote]

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