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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 408028" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Kanga was like this -- very good at school and hell on wheels at home. We were able to use the fact that she missed so much school due to psychiatric hospital stays to get a 'diagnostic placement'. I'm pretty sure our Special Education director made that term up but feel free to use it! Basically the logic was that the disability was interfering with her education because, even though she held it together when she was at school, she was unable to consistently attend school due to her disability. The psychiatrist (with the M.D.) wrote a letter stating that due to her current instability with her Bipolar that she needed to be in 'a small, therapuetic classroom that could adjust their curriculum to Kanga's varying needs and to decrease the risk of suicidal ideation and attempts'. The Special Education director used that to place Kanga at a TDS (she knew we were working on getting her into a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and was willing to what she could to help us). The MD cannot dictate placement but he can state what her needs are and by stating that she needed the 'small, therapuetic classroom' to avoid a suicide, most schools are going to err on the side of going with the special placement because they have been put on warning that their current placement in a risk factor for that child. </p><p></p><p>It sounds like you are going in that direction as well. I hope your school gets it -- soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 408028, member: 1169"] Kanga was like this -- very good at school and hell on wheels at home. We were able to use the fact that she missed so much school due to psychiatric hospital stays to get a 'diagnostic placement'. I'm pretty sure our Special Education director made that term up but feel free to use it! Basically the logic was that the disability was interfering with her education because, even though she held it together when she was at school, she was unable to consistently attend school due to her disability. The psychiatrist (with the M.D.) wrote a letter stating that due to her current instability with her Bipolar that she needed to be in 'a small, therapuetic classroom that could adjust their curriculum to Kanga's varying needs and to decrease the risk of suicidal ideation and attempts'. The Special Education director used that to place Kanga at a TDS (she knew we were working on getting her into a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and was willing to what she could to help us). The MD cannot dictate placement but he can state what her needs are and by stating that she needed the 'small, therapuetic classroom' to avoid a suicide, most schools are going to err on the side of going with the special placement because they have been put on warning that their current placement in a risk factor for that child. It sounds like you are going in that direction as well. I hope your school gets it -- soon. [/QUOTE]
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