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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 399236" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You were posting the events with the Occupational Therapist (OT) as I was posting, so I just saw them. Marg is right on the apology - the Occupational Therapist (OT) should have known MUCH better than to do what she did. Has she ever evaluated your difficult child? He clearly needs an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation, and school's will be biased.</p><p> </p><p>Schools ALWAYS want to use the pro's they have on staff or retainer. Many will influence those pro's to minimize things or ignore things even if they are obvious because if they are seen/noticed/diagnosis'd then the school must act on that - and that costs $$$. So you need to always have a private evaluation rather than the school's evaluation even if you must drive a couple of hours to get it. We drive at least 90 mins to most any specialist other than a pediatrician simply because of where we live. Though when we lived in a big city it often took close to that if it was anywhere near rush hour or lunchtime, lol. </p><p> </p><p>One evaluation that we had done was with a woman wo also contracted with a school district, though not ours and she took private clients with our insurance. She flat out told us that if she was paid by the school she would have diagnosis'd thank you with just some mild hand problems even though it was CLEAR he had fairly severe sensory integration disorder. The school tried to not even evaluation him, then to only treat his hand problems - which they agreed were NOT mild but were severe (his hands ache for hours if he has to write even a full page either printing or in cursive. He never did color because it was painful and he largely refused to use scissors until about 2nd grade if he could get away with it). With our private evaluation, the Occupational Therapist (OT) agreed with the full diagnosis - and told us that if we hadn't done that she would not have had any choice but to ignore the other issues because the school would NOT accept an evaluation from her with those diagnosis's and recommendations! </p><p> </p><p>It is that way all over, and is probably worse now with the economy the way it is. They still have to accommodate him though, so get the private evaluations scheduled as soon as you can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 399236, member: 1233"] You were posting the events with the Occupational Therapist (OT) as I was posting, so I just saw them. Marg is right on the apology - the Occupational Therapist (OT) should have known MUCH better than to do what she did. Has she ever evaluated your difficult child? He clearly needs an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation, and school's will be biased. Schools ALWAYS want to use the pro's they have on staff or retainer. Many will influence those pro's to minimize things or ignore things even if they are obvious because if they are seen/noticed/diagnosis'd then the school must act on that - and that costs $$$. So you need to always have a private evaluation rather than the school's evaluation even if you must drive a couple of hours to get it. We drive at least 90 mins to most any specialist other than a pediatrician simply because of where we live. Though when we lived in a big city it often took close to that if it was anywhere near rush hour or lunchtime, lol. One evaluation that we had done was with a woman wo also contracted with a school district, though not ours and she took private clients with our insurance. She flat out told us that if she was paid by the school she would have diagnosis'd thank you with just some mild hand problems even though it was CLEAR he had fairly severe sensory integration disorder. The school tried to not even evaluation him, then to only treat his hand problems - which they agreed were NOT mild but were severe (his hands ache for hours if he has to write even a full page either printing or in cursive. He never did color because it was painful and he largely refused to use scissors until about 2nd grade if he could get away with it). With our private evaluation, the Occupational Therapist (OT) agreed with the full diagnosis - and told us that if we hadn't done that she would not have had any choice but to ignore the other issues because the school would NOT accept an evaluation from her with those diagnosis's and recommendations! It is that way all over, and is probably worse now with the economy the way it is. They still have to accommodate him though, so get the private evaluations scheduled as soon as you can. [/QUOTE]
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