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<blockquote data-quote="jal" data-source="post: 223896" data-attributes="member: 3477"><p>I have never had this type of experience before in my lifetime nor has husband, but we have been very lucky in the services we've received so far. husband and I live in a small town in CT, own our own home, have 1 bio child (6) diagnosis'd bipolar & adhd and do not have medicaid or medicare. Our SD was awesome in the IEP process and now as difficult child can't handle mainstream yet, we were given out of district placement in a therapeutic school where difficult child is now thriving after just 5 weeks. No fight, no attorney's, no advocates. I carry the insurance for the family through my job and many of the doctors we have seen and difficult child's medication are subject to co-pays, yet our psychiatrist does not take insurance and we pay out-of-pocket $150 for 25 min. One thing the SW at difficult child's mainstream school, the SW at the psychiatric hospital where difficult child was this summer and husband and my psychologist suggested was to apply for Voluntary Services through DCF. I have mentioned this here a few times before. I was hesitant, but I finally did it and we were accepted. We receive in-home intensive therapy 2 times a week. We can take respite, if we want it. They will pay for a neuropsychologist evaluation, if the school won't do it (my insurance covered our first one) and we get another evaluation with the staff psychiatrist at no charge. I am not sure if anything like this is available at all in your state through the Children and Families Department. We get this for 6 months to a year and can terminate services at any time.</p><p></p><p>Now the SD is paying for transportation and tuition to the therapeutic school. We just had our first IEP since difficult child's been there and they have offered us extended summer services (difficult child to go to school for 5 weeks in summer), full blown Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation, Austism screening (SD said they would pay for) and we asked SD to pay for neuropsychologist evaluation and they said yes. Although through discussion we have decided to wait 1 year so he is a bit older. </p><p></p><p>I feel very lucky to have been given such a wonderful gift of support. The people I have met through this process have been wonderful, caring and informative. Believe me, I do understand this is not the case with every state, school district and teacher/educator, but I honestly do feel blessed to have these things in place. It pains me to hear that this is not an option in every state for everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jal, post: 223896, member: 3477"] I have never had this type of experience before in my lifetime nor has husband, but we have been very lucky in the services we've received so far. husband and I live in a small town in CT, own our own home, have 1 bio child (6) diagnosis'd bipolar & adhd and do not have medicaid or medicare. Our SD was awesome in the IEP process and now as difficult child can't handle mainstream yet, we were given out of district placement in a therapeutic school where difficult child is now thriving after just 5 weeks. No fight, no attorney's, no advocates. I carry the insurance for the family through my job and many of the doctors we have seen and difficult child's medication are subject to co-pays, yet our psychiatrist does not take insurance and we pay out-of-pocket $150 for 25 min. One thing the SW at difficult child's mainstream school, the SW at the psychiatric hospital where difficult child was this summer and husband and my psychologist suggested was to apply for Voluntary Services through DCF. I have mentioned this here a few times before. I was hesitant, but I finally did it and we were accepted. We receive in-home intensive therapy 2 times a week. We can take respite, if we want it. They will pay for a neuropsychologist evaluation, if the school won't do it (my insurance covered our first one) and we get another evaluation with the staff psychiatrist at no charge. I am not sure if anything like this is available at all in your state through the Children and Families Department. We get this for 6 months to a year and can terminate services at any time. Now the SD is paying for transportation and tuition to the therapeutic school. We just had our first IEP since difficult child's been there and they have offered us extended summer services (difficult child to go to school for 5 weeks in summer), full blown Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation, Austism screening (SD said they would pay for) and we asked SD to pay for neuropsychologist evaluation and they said yes. Although through discussion we have decided to wait 1 year so he is a bit older. I feel very lucky to have been given such a wonderful gift of support. The people I have met through this process have been wonderful, caring and informative. Believe me, I do understand this is not the case with every state, school district and teacher/educator, but I honestly do feel blessed to have these things in place. It pains me to hear that this is not an option in every state for everyone. [/QUOTE]
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