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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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Yes : when they are little, speech, OT. Then add weekly therapy and social skills group as they get older. Then add a therapist for each parent. The time and money for all these therapies can be staggering.[/quote]

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