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just curious--does anyone regularly pull their difficult child out of school for therapy?
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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 381168" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>Unfortunately this is very common. Late afternoon/evening appointments are prime time, and they get snatched up quickly. For my difficult children we had to take what we could get. Sometimes that meant a 10:30 a.m. appointment, sometimes it meant 1 p.m., sometimes we were lucky enough to get them at 3 or 4. I have to say, I never met a therapist or psychiatrist that gave "regular" appointments (e.g., every Wednesday at 11 am), because each week we made the next appintment at the end of a session. It all depended on what kind of progress either of my difficult children was making, and if an appointment one week out was appropriate, or whether she could wait 2-3 weeks until the next one. When we were in crisis, we did get 1 or 2 a week, but that didn't last for more than 2-3 weeks. </p><p></p><p>You do what you have to do. If you want only late afternoon appointments, chances are you're going to wait a long time for one. Yes, it can be disruptive, to both a difficult child's school schedule and a parent's work schedule. But I figured if the alternative was an escalating crisis resulting in destabilization at school and home, even more time gets missed, so I just worked around it as best I could. I also had accommodations put into my kids' IEPs for work missed due to outside appointments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 381168, member: 1157"] Unfortunately this is very common. Late afternoon/evening appointments are prime time, and they get snatched up quickly. For my difficult children we had to take what we could get. Sometimes that meant a 10:30 a.m. appointment, sometimes it meant 1 p.m., sometimes we were lucky enough to get them at 3 or 4. I have to say, I never met a therapist or psychiatrist that gave "regular" appointments (e.g., every Wednesday at 11 am), because each week we made the next appintment at the end of a session. It all depended on what kind of progress either of my difficult children was making, and if an appointment one week out was appropriate, or whether she could wait 2-3 weeks until the next one. When we were in crisis, we did get 1 or 2 a week, but that didn't last for more than 2-3 weeks. You do what you have to do. If you want only late afternoon appointments, chances are you're going to wait a long time for one. Yes, it can be disruptive, to both a difficult child's school schedule and a parent's work schedule. But I figured if the alternative was an escalating crisis resulting in destabilization at school and home, even more time gets missed, so I just worked around it as best I could. I also had accommodations put into my kids' IEPs for work missed due to outside appointments. [/QUOTE]
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