VENT!! Trying to get a 504....talk to me about your experiences. - Page 2

[Emmeline II]

Originally Posted by blessedwithboys 

Thanks, but I spent a few months last school year dealing with OCR.  They are totally useless, IMO.  I guess all they do is ensure that the school followed The Process.  They can't make a school give a child a 504 plan.  And anyway, the charter school they were in last year closed over the summer.  Now ds is in the regular public high school.  I'm not happy with it for many reasons (When I asked for a meeting to explain that ds has narcolepsy and the dr wants him on full-time homebound, the school refused to cooperate and then the guidance counselor told me to make sure to use ds's student # anytime I called him, bc there were just too many kids at the school for him to remember anyone by name. 

I saw this suggestion on another site and wondered if this is something you had tried:

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My blanket advice is skip to the top, go to the district coordinators if you feel any resistance to reasonable requests for 504 or IDEA determinations. Their job is compliance, and they tend to err on the side of caution.

[MnMtm]

Originally Posted by NiteNicole 

I know you don't know about us and our situation and you're trying to be helpful but every time someone tells me we should just get her some PT/OT, I want to scream.  That stuff is not free.  Our insurance (our very expensive, private insurance for which we pay a small fortune) does not cover it.  We are not low income so we don't qualify for any programs.  I'm sure PT and OT are wonderful things but without a spare $800+ a week, we'll never know.  There is literally no way we can come up with that kind of money. 

This is your healthcare system, America, and it effing sucks.

Do you have a Shriner's hos[ital anywhere nearby? They also provide free therapies, although I'm not sure on what basis they qualify people.

[NiteNicole]

We have sent them some paper work and are waiting to hear something.  From what I can read, she doesn't seem to fall into any of their categories but you never know!

[blessedwithboys]

Originally Posted by Emmeline II 

I saw this suggestion on another site and wondered if this is something you had tried:

Thank you.  :)   The district just refers me back to the school.  I'm really a homeschooling mama at heart, so that's probably the route we'll take (or go back to, as is our case).