You know, we have been doing this since he was just a little over 2, and he is now a little over 5. In that time we have had 3 speech therapists. It is not because we ask to change them, but because the Children's Hospital keeps messing it up..
1st change - his therapist transferred to a different location, but we had an immediate transition into an open spot.
2nd change - his therapist had a baby and quit - we had about 6 weeks off.
3rd change - I put in to his therapist a request to look at different times because of upcoming transition to Kinder. I specifically told her on the phone, when she called with her only available time a sort of conflict with DS1's counseling, to just keep him where he is right now. I just got informed that her supervisor moved him out of his spot and gave it to someone else. We either have to go back on the waiting list (which is hugely long); switch into a slot where the kids wont get to eat once a week because of timing between DS1's counseling and Ds2's speech therapy (4 kids who will need to eat); become an "on-call" type of thing - basically meaning she will call us if someone cancels on the spur of the moment.
Oh, not to mention that we will also have to get in now for OT as well...which will be an additional scheduling nightmare.
The hospital is the closest place for him to get the therapy for us, everything else is an additional 10-20 mins travel each direction....
Sorry, it is frustrating. I put the request for a change in far enough in advance we could get a better time to accomodate school...but when we couldn't get a different time, I specially said "I didn't want to change, I will pull him from school as therapy is during lunch/recess time", and they did it anyways.
Not only that, but I am sure with the transition to a new school, that his IEP wont be implimented for a while, especially since I already know from experience that the school district does not really start their IEP's for the school year until almost 4-6 weeks into it. We also then have to deal with the fact that he is in private school and the public school will have to schedule it with the private school to be able to work around the school's schedule and the therapists schedule.
Original diagnosis was Speech Apraxia, but he is now Articulation Disorder, his articulation is about 3 or 4%
1st change - his therapist transferred to a different location, but we had an immediate transition into an open spot.
2nd change - his therapist had a baby and quit - we had about 6 weeks off.
3rd change - I put in to his therapist a request to look at different times because of upcoming transition to Kinder. I specifically told her on the phone, when she called with her only available time a sort of conflict with DS1's counseling, to just keep him where he is right now. I just got informed that her supervisor moved him out of his spot and gave it to someone else. We either have to go back on the waiting list (which is hugely long); switch into a slot where the kids wont get to eat once a week because of timing between DS1's counseling and Ds2's speech therapy (4 kids who will need to eat); become an "on-call" type of thing - basically meaning she will call us if someone cancels on the spur of the moment.
Oh, not to mention that we will also have to get in now for OT as well...which will be an additional scheduling nightmare.
The hospital is the closest place for him to get the therapy for us, everything else is an additional 10-20 mins travel each direction....
Sorry, it is frustrating. I put the request for a change in far enough in advance we could get a better time to accomodate school...but when we couldn't get a different time, I specially said "I didn't want to change, I will pull him from school as therapy is during lunch/recess time", and they did it anyways.
Not only that, but I am sure with the transition to a new school, that his IEP wont be implimented for a while, especially since I already know from experience that the school district does not really start their IEP's for the school year until almost 4-6 weeks into it. We also then have to deal with the fact that he is in private school and the public school will have to schedule it with the private school to be able to work around the school's schedule and the therapists schedule.
Original diagnosis was Speech Apraxia, but he is now Articulation Disorder, his articulation is about 3 or 4%
