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how to get your public school pay for alternate ed
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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 113553" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>bzymomto4,</p><p></p><p>The advice given on this board is that a 504 plan is worthless. Your post outlines why: it is inappropriate for the types of issues an EBD student presents, it has no parent participation requirement, no monitoring and no Due Process rights attached.</p><p></p><p>You chances of getting your SD to pay for private residential based on a 504 plan is ZERO in my opinion. I say this because it is VERY difficult to get a SD to pay for residential without going to Due Process and even that does not guarantee that the SD will have to pay. To go to DP, the child must be IEP qualified.</p><p></p><p>If I were you, I would send a <strong>certified</strong> letter to your SD requesting a full evaluation of you son under IDEA. Do not tell them what to evaluate: request an evaluation of EVERYTHING that potentially is negatively impacting his academic and behavioral progress in the general education curriculum. You can BET that the SD will not want to qualify a child as old as yours. This is why I believe that all of "our" kids should not leave elementary school without being IEP qualified. Special education is a service, not a place. My ex-difficult child, who is now 20, was never in anywhere but the regular classroom. When he became actively suicidal, I placed him unilaterally in an EGBS and lost at subsequent DP on a technical time-line violation. Therefore, our family self-funded EGBS which was a financial catastrophe for us, but it saved my son's life. Private therapeutic placement is a huge financial gamble but there are at least three people on the board who have done this with positive results for the child.</p><p></p><p>There are many people on the General Board who know far more than I do about seeking funding outside of the schools but the bottom line is that insurance is not usually going to help with LT Tx and people in the middle income brackets have very limited options unless there is a state program that assist with long-term mental health issues.</p><p></p><p>I STILL think it is worthwhile to get your son IEP qualified because it protects him from suspension and expulsion which a 504 plan does not.</p><p></p><p>Best to you,</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 113553, member: 284"] bzymomto4, The advice given on this board is that a 504 plan is worthless. Your post outlines why: it is inappropriate for the types of issues an EBD student presents, it has no parent participation requirement, no monitoring and no Due Process rights attached. You chances of getting your SD to pay for private residential based on a 504 plan is ZERO in my opinion. I say this because it is VERY difficult to get a SD to pay for residential without going to Due Process and even that does not guarantee that the SD will have to pay. To go to DP, the child must be IEP qualified. If I were you, I would send a [b]certified[/b] letter to your SD requesting a full evaluation of you son under IDEA. Do not tell them what to evaluate: request an evaluation of EVERYTHING that potentially is negatively impacting his academic and behavioral progress in the general education curriculum. You can BET that the SD will not want to qualify a child as old as yours. This is why I believe that all of "our" kids should not leave elementary school without being IEP qualified. Special education is a service, not a place. My ex-difficult child, who is now 20, was never in anywhere but the regular classroom. When he became actively suicidal, I placed him unilaterally in an EGBS and lost at subsequent DP on a technical time-line violation. Therefore, our family self-funded EGBS which was a financial catastrophe for us, but it saved my son's life. Private therapeutic placement is a huge financial gamble but there are at least three people on the board who have done this with positive results for the child. There are many people on the General Board who know far more than I do about seeking funding outside of the schools but the bottom line is that insurance is not usually going to help with LT Tx and people in the middle income brackets have very limited options unless there is a state program that assist with long-term mental health issues. I STILL think it is worthwhile to get your son IEP qualified because it protects him from suspension and expulsion which a 504 plan does not. Best to you, Martie [/QUOTE]
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