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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look a therapist can't "train" another to do what one has usually had six years of training to learn.   And just how is a classroom teacher going to find one-on-one moments to do whatever is recommended on the half hour or more increments.  But it is also true that a public school division does provide direct services within its school buildings.  I can see that the Archdiosce thought it would be helping more families by officially saying therapy could be done on site during school hours.  I think it would have been more honest for DCPS to just say they do not have the budget to do so beyond a coaching approach, so if you want direct service model one must be in a DCPS school site.  Like it or not every school division has a finite budget to meet the varying needs of many kinds of students.  Every parent has to prioritize the needs of their child and go from there.

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Apparently that is what they did say - and then they got a state complaint filed against them by someone and OSSE agreed that parent transport was burdensome.

So DCPS says that the consult model is what they can afford to do if specialists have travel to the private schools.

It sucks for families who the previous system was working for. But clearly there were some who it didn't work for, or the complaint wouldn't have been filed.

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