I got into a battle this morning with the local school district regarding services (speech, OT, language, etc...) for home schooled children. I was flat out told that they do not provide any services to these students, which my DD1 is HSed and is in need of services.
Background: We have paid and traveled for several evals, the last being an extensive speech and language eval. We have traveled for intensive OT programs because not much exists here, it is a very rural area. There are no private OTs or speech therapists, you HAVE to go through the school district to get any services. We have an OT that works in a neighboring school district that comes over on her day off to work with DD1. We've paid privately for everything up to now, and if speech therapy was available through any other means then I'd be doing it, but it isn't.
I have an interview tomorrow with a very small, private school that specializes in dyslexic students because I'm reaching the end of my rope with piecing together services and traveling for many of them. They can provide the language processing therapy that DD1 needs, but not speech for that we have to go through the school district. The school district told me that *sometimes* they will work with a student at a private school but only in very special cases. I know exactly how their evals function, we've BTDT when DD1 was 4 (she is 6 now), we were told nothing was wrong. It was very apparent to all other evaluators that there were issues. I know if I do get them to do more evals, then I'm sure I'll hear the same thing again, (they refuse to consider the evals we have paid for) but I can't even get to that point yet. It was my understanding that CO schools were responsible for for providing services to children even if they were homeschooled. Anyone have links, I'm finding nothing so far. I finally got them to agree to meet with me next week so I'm hoping to have "proof".
TIA
Amy
Background: We have paid and traveled for several evals, the last being an extensive speech and language eval. We have traveled for intensive OT programs because not much exists here, it is a very rural area. There are no private OTs or speech therapists, you HAVE to go through the school district to get any services. We have an OT that works in a neighboring school district that comes over on her day off to work with DD1. We've paid privately for everything up to now, and if speech therapy was available through any other means then I'd be doing it, but it isn't.
I have an interview tomorrow with a very small, private school that specializes in dyslexic students because I'm reaching the end of my rope with piecing together services and traveling for many of them. They can provide the language processing therapy that DD1 needs, but not speech for that we have to go through the school district. The school district told me that *sometimes* they will work with a student at a private school but only in very special cases. I know exactly how their evals function, we've BTDT when DD1 was 4 (she is 6 now), we were told nothing was wrong. It was very apparent to all other evaluators that there were issues. I know if I do get them to do more evals, then I'm sure I'll hear the same thing again, (they refuse to consider the evals we have paid for) but I can't even get to that point yet. It was my understanding that CO schools were responsible for for providing services to children even if they were homeschooled. Anyone have links, I'm finding nothing so far. I finally got them to agree to meet with me next week so I'm hoping to have "proof".
TIA
Amy
I met today with an advocate that I'm hiring to help us. We have a meeting on Thursday with the school district, I know we'll get evals because the law is on our side, but I'm doubting that they will actually come back with anything. 
I'm still going to try, it's always worth a shot.
