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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 57859" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I know her lack of experience worries you, but the university is a TEACHING institution, in my experience I found better care there than anywhere else, when you've got a student who is prepared to ask for supervision. It takes longer because they need to be double-checked. You can be sure that someone much more capable was looking over that therapist's shoulder and will be overseeing difficult child's files.</p><p></p><p>Getting medications right WILL take time, whoever he sees. And she DID give you some much-needed validation.</p><p></p><p>If you feel that difficult child is not being handled with appropriate care, then I would ask her, "I am really concerned that my son get the best treatment and not be mucked around. I know you need to learn somehow, but given my concerns should I take my son to someone private and more experienced? Or are you being supervised as you counsel my son?"</p><p>Be honest. She needs to know how you feel. You need to know where you stand.</p><p></p><p>Back when contact lenses were still new and prohibitively expensive, we had a cheap option - we could see the final year optometry students for a consult, on condition we put up with their (supervised) ineptness. I actually found that despite their inexperience they were so nervous about getting it right that they were extremely careful. All measurements were checked by a fully qualified and well-practised professional and my first contact lenses were a fraction of the price as well as state of the art.</p><p></p><p>I've also had difficult child 3 assessed by university students (post-grad) who were developing a new assessment system for autistic kids. It was part of a uni research project and these girls were still learning, but they already had enough knowledge (more up to date than most therapists we had seen) to give difficult child 3 a careful, thorough assessment which gave us what I feel was the most accurate IQ score to date. You can't get an artificially high score, but if you assess a kid wrongly, you can score them too low. So I saw their high score for difficult child 3 as a measure of their care.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 57859, member: 1991"] I know her lack of experience worries you, but the university is a TEACHING institution, in my experience I found better care there than anywhere else, when you've got a student who is prepared to ask for supervision. It takes longer because they need to be double-checked. You can be sure that someone much more capable was looking over that therapist's shoulder and will be overseeing difficult child's files. Getting medications right WILL take time, whoever he sees. And she DID give you some much-needed validation. If you feel that difficult child is not being handled with appropriate care, then I would ask her, "I am really concerned that my son get the best treatment and not be mucked around. I know you need to learn somehow, but given my concerns should I take my son to someone private and more experienced? Or are you being supervised as you counsel my son?" Be honest. She needs to know how you feel. You need to know where you stand. Back when contact lenses were still new and prohibitively expensive, we had a cheap option - we could see the final year optometry students for a consult, on condition we put up with their (supervised) ineptness. I actually found that despite their inexperience they were so nervous about getting it right that they were extremely careful. All measurements were checked by a fully qualified and well-practised professional and my first contact lenses were a fraction of the price as well as state of the art. I've also had difficult child 3 assessed by university students (post-grad) who were developing a new assessment system for autistic kids. It was part of a uni research project and these girls were still learning, but they already had enough knowledge (more up to date than most therapists we had seen) to give difficult child 3 a careful, thorough assessment which gave us what I feel was the most accurate IQ score to date. You can't get an artificially high score, but if you assess a kid wrongly, you can score them too low. So I saw their high score for difficult child 3 as a measure of their care. Marg [/QUOTE]
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