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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 142483" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The school could well be the victims here too. They contracted with this tutoring company and the company has failed to provide a tutor. I would make sure the school knows, so they don't automatically fork out the allotted amount of money for services not rendered.</p><p></p><p>We had a problem a bit like this with difficult child 3 - I had been accused of neglect, had the authorities called on me, due to difficult child 3's failure to develop proper language. I had already applied for speech pathology for him, but this wasn't enough for the authorities - I hadn't been nagging to get the therapy early enough! In the end, he was on a waiting list for ten months, which is a ridiculously long time for a kid who is only 30 months old. One third of his life. We were losing valuable time when he really needed to be laying down the foundations of language.</p><p></p><p>Finally the block of therapy was approved. Due to waiting lists, triage etc, only one block of therapy was to be given. But what actually happened - the therapist was to visit where difficult child 3 was receiving child care, but the therapist would often be late. A few times she didn't show up at all. Then she went on leave. One time the therapist rang the care giver instead, to talk to her and ask her questions (and also rang me to ask me questions). We got very little advice at the time, she just got information from us.</p><p></p><p>When I added it all up, difficult child 3 got less than half, maybe about a quarter, of the therapy he should have in terms of her attendance. When it came down to anything actually don for difficult child 3, it was minimal. </p><p></p><p>So I made a fuss. As a result, they allotted another block of therapy, to replace what he had missed. This time I had to take him to their centre for therapy, which was better. It was still not enough, but if I hadn't been nagging them, we wouldn't have even got past first base. I've known other parents in similar situations, who because they couldn't get to the centre for weekly appointments, were never given any follow-up therapy in-home. "They should have been trying harder; it clearly wasn't a high enough priority for them." Never mind that so many parents like this are too tired, too mentally exhausted or too intimidated to make a fuss. They seem to have a very superior attitude; they are the professionals, we are just a nuisance.</p><p></p><p>I'm definitely unimpressed with agencies, therapists etc who have a cushy job dealing with government contracts which they can easily abuse or get lax with, and who then strike an attitude of "we are doing you a favour by deigning to turn up at all".</p><p></p><p>I'm wondering with this tutor - maybe she wasn't as good as she was supposed to be? And when it came down to producing the goods, she chickened out? Just a thought. I've seen similar things before - an office manager my charity hired (I was on the interview panel) who claimed to have amazing references (only I couldn't track down any of her referees - they were either out of the country or dead) and who also claimed to have skill in a number of important computer programs, actually turned out to need to be sent on expensive courses to learn the stuff she was supposedly an expert in.</p><p></p><p>People sometimes lie on resumes. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 142483, member: 1991"] The school could well be the victims here too. They contracted with this tutoring company and the company has failed to provide a tutor. I would make sure the school knows, so they don't automatically fork out the allotted amount of money for services not rendered. We had a problem a bit like this with difficult child 3 - I had been accused of neglect, had the authorities called on me, due to difficult child 3's failure to develop proper language. I had already applied for speech pathology for him, but this wasn't enough for the authorities - I hadn't been nagging to get the therapy early enough! In the end, he was on a waiting list for ten months, which is a ridiculously long time for a kid who is only 30 months old. One third of his life. We were losing valuable time when he really needed to be laying down the foundations of language. Finally the block of therapy was approved. Due to waiting lists, triage etc, only one block of therapy was to be given. But what actually happened - the therapist was to visit where difficult child 3 was receiving child care, but the therapist would often be late. A few times she didn't show up at all. Then she went on leave. One time the therapist rang the care giver instead, to talk to her and ask her questions (and also rang me to ask me questions). We got very little advice at the time, she just got information from us. When I added it all up, difficult child 3 got less than half, maybe about a quarter, of the therapy he should have in terms of her attendance. When it came down to anything actually don for difficult child 3, it was minimal. So I made a fuss. As a result, they allotted another block of therapy, to replace what he had missed. This time I had to take him to their centre for therapy, which was better. It was still not enough, but if I hadn't been nagging them, we wouldn't have even got past first base. I've known other parents in similar situations, who because they couldn't get to the centre for weekly appointments, were never given any follow-up therapy in-home. "They should have been trying harder; it clearly wasn't a high enough priority for them." Never mind that so many parents like this are too tired, too mentally exhausted or too intimidated to make a fuss. They seem to have a very superior attitude; they are the professionals, we are just a nuisance. I'm definitely unimpressed with agencies, therapists etc who have a cushy job dealing with government contracts which they can easily abuse or get lax with, and who then strike an attitude of "we are doing you a favour by deigning to turn up at all". I'm wondering with this tutor - maybe she wasn't as good as she was supposed to be? And when it came down to producing the goods, she chickened out? Just a thought. I've seen similar things before - an office manager my charity hired (I was on the interview panel) who claimed to have amazing references (only I couldn't track down any of her referees - they were either out of the country or dead) and who also claimed to have skill in a number of important computer programs, actually turned out to need to be sent on expensive courses to learn the stuff she was supposedly an expert in. People sometimes lie on resumes. Marg [/QUOTE]
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