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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="susiestar" data-source="post: 381175" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>In most places it is virtually impossible to get timeslots before or after school. If you do a LOT of calling around you might be able to find a doctor who has an open appointment time after school or before it. Have you tried taking the list of providers on your insurance website and calling each of them to see if they are certified with kids, have open times after school, and are taking new patients with your insurance? Sometimes you can find an appointment this way. Those provider lists are extremely handy once you figure out how to find them. </p><p> </p><p>Some years I have had to have the absences for appts written into IEP's and even then had problems. A lot of the decision, for us at least, is based on how severe the need for the service is, and how much it will change things in terms of making up work, attendance issues, etc... I also take into account how being absent regularly will change Wiz' attitude and behavior at school. If he is slacking off on Thurs, boasting about getting long weekends every week, we either change the appointment or get a LOT of school work for him to accomplish over the weekend. Other times I have had no problems with as many absences as I want provided I tell them where we are going and why. </p><p> </p><p>This practice you are trying to schedule with sounds scr3wy, but I am not sure what other options you have. If you take this appointment in the meantime does it mean that you are forever stuck with this time and this therapist? Is this therapist someone they cannot get any patients to stick with? Why are they being so pushy? My radar went off when you said that they are calling every day to push you into this time slot. Some practices do need you to commit to a timeslot quickly because there are a lot of people who are wanting appts. I would think that after you have said you want to wait for an afternoon slot that they would have gone ahead and given the slot to someone else.</p><p> </p><p>The hard push to take it makes me think either it is a timeslot that is impossible to fill (likely because it will waste an entire morning for a parent and child) and someone has told the schedulers that they MUST fill this slot, or it is with a therapist who is very new, not good with patients and/or parents, or otherwise is hard to schedule patients with. It just make me very wary when they push you so hard so many times, Know what I mean??</p><p> </p><p>I hope this helps. If the school hassles you for taking difficult child out of school for these appts, get it put into his IEP that he will have to leave early for therapy as scheduled by mom. Then bring a note to the school for each time. Just be SURE to have a copy of the note in YOUR files (keep a copy of any and everything that you send to school in writing, even if it is a form you have to fill out and return. I scan them into the computer and then save a backup on a thumb drive. It saves having to fish through paperwork and I can print out a copy of anything they want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 381175, member: 1233"] In most places it is virtually impossible to get timeslots before or after school. If you do a LOT of calling around you might be able to find a doctor who has an open appointment time after school or before it. Have you tried taking the list of providers on your insurance website and calling each of them to see if they are certified with kids, have open times after school, and are taking new patients with your insurance? Sometimes you can find an appointment this way. Those provider lists are extremely handy once you figure out how to find them. Some years I have had to have the absences for appts written into IEP's and even then had problems. A lot of the decision, for us at least, is based on how severe the need for the service is, and how much it will change things in terms of making up work, attendance issues, etc... I also take into account how being absent regularly will change Wiz' attitude and behavior at school. If he is slacking off on Thurs, boasting about getting long weekends every week, we either change the appointment or get a LOT of school work for him to accomplish over the weekend. Other times I have had no problems with as many absences as I want provided I tell them where we are going and why. This practice you are trying to schedule with sounds scr3wy, but I am not sure what other options you have. If you take this appointment in the meantime does it mean that you are forever stuck with this time and this therapist? Is this therapist someone they cannot get any patients to stick with? Why are they being so pushy? My radar went off when you said that they are calling every day to push you into this time slot. Some practices do need you to commit to a timeslot quickly because there are a lot of people who are wanting appts. I would think that after you have said you want to wait for an afternoon slot that they would have gone ahead and given the slot to someone else. The hard push to take it makes me think either it is a timeslot that is impossible to fill (likely because it will waste an entire morning for a parent and child) and someone has told the schedulers that they MUST fill this slot, or it is with a therapist who is very new, not good with patients and/or parents, or otherwise is hard to schedule patients with. It just make me very wary when they push you so hard so many times, Know what I mean?? I hope this helps. If the school hassles you for taking difficult child out of school for these appts, get it put into his IEP that he will have to leave early for therapy as scheduled by mom. Then bring a note to the school for each time. Just be SURE to have a copy of the note in YOUR files (keep a copy of any and everything that you send to school in writing, even if it is a form you have to fill out and return. I scan them into the computer and then save a backup on a thumb drive. It saves having to fish through paperwork and I can print out a copy of anything they want. [/QUOTE]
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