dmmm Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Just for fun - For homeschool, including OT, PT, tutoring, supplies, curriculum, books, and technology, how would you spend it? I have a feeling it won't go as far as I think it would. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Are you actually getting the money or just pondering? I'd put it into therapies and social groups, and therapies in our state are $100-110 an hour. So no, it won't go as far as you think. That's 2 hours of therapy a week for a year. In our state the autism scholarship is $20K a year. Many people will take that and designate it to one provider who then provides all their services (tutoring, respite care, therapies, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Hire dd8s current autism specialist to work with her classroom teachers to train them on how to deal with my daughter and kids like her. She is in a self contained behavior classroom now, in a program that is designed for the kids to spend as much time as possible in each students general education classroom. They go to the gen ed classroom throughout the day and then in the behavior classroom when they aren't being apprpirate/successful in gen-ed. This is a district wide program and there are less than 10 students in the program (they are bussed from around the district to this particular school) so it is very specialized. I found out last week that they are evaluating her to be moved from this program, to the most restrictive program in the area. It is in a different school that has the entire school is designed for kids with extreme behaviors. There are less than 100 kids k-12. It breaks my heart and makes me feel like a huge failure as a parent. She will be in a program that has very little academic focus but it is still considered 'school'. It is completely for behavior modification and when I asked about the average turn around time for students it is 18-36 months. It is essentially a therapeutic day program. :0( Once she 'graduates' in a couple of years, she will come back to where she is right now. I doubt that she will ever be in a gen-ed classroom at this point. Her behavior therapist went to observe her classroom and made some suggestions on different ways to approach her. The teacher has given me more excuses on why the interventions aren't going to work in her classroom, than reasons why they will. I think she is just tired of dealing with dd8 and is ready for her to move on. DD is Very Aggressive and mean. Her teacher is hit, kicked, punched, scratched and generally brutalized by my daughter daily, so I do understand that there is a tipping point. But, while she has daily tantrums at school, she rarely gets that bad at home, which tells me that there is something negative at school that is making things worse, not better. I really think that if he had the time to do some real training with her teachers, he could show them how to avoid many of the catalysts to her behaviors and teach them to support her instead of just giving punitive actions that mean nothing to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Therapy co-pays An iPad if I didn't already have one Lindamood-Bell curriculum as appropriate for the child (LiPS, Seeing Stars, etc.) Barton or Wilson or another intensive O-G program Earobics or Hear Builders if the child has difficulty with auditory processing Verticy for writing Michelle Garcia Winner's social thinking materials Sklar Executive Functioning training http://executivefunctioningsuccess.com/professional-training-1/ stuff from Linguisystems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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