[blindkid] Sensory OT

[Heather Breems]

Thank you Trudy,

I have heard from our state chapter president as well with some helpful
hints.  We are seeing a vision teacher at our local school for the Blind.
 Unfortunately they no longer have any OT's on staff and she was not sure
who to refer us to at this point, but was also going to look into it for us.
 Since my son turns 3 soon, we will have to go through our insurance for
private OT services.  Thankfully though our insurance covers 15 sessions per
year.

Unfortunately the school has not even evaluated him yet.  He has an IFSP (or
should soon as early intervention evaluated him on July 26th), but the
school appears to be stalling on sending me the consent form to have him
evaluated by their team.  I know by law once I sign the consent they must
evaluate him within 60 days so my fear is they are trying to keep me from
signing in order to delay and catch up from all the summer cases.  Even once
he is evaluated I do not have a lot of faith that he will get the proper OT
services he needs through the schools.  That is where we are at this point.

Sincerely,
Heather

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Trudy Pickrel <tlpickrel at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Heather
>
> Start with your local school for the Blind. Many of them do evaluations for
> both early intervention and school districts. Some insurance pays for
> private OT if referred by Physian. Your state chapter president also should
> be able to point you toward evaluators. Early intervention and mths before
> he turns 3 they should evaluate and have his IEP so it starts the week of
> services. I know if you put in writing asking for IEP they have 30 days.
> Maybe someone on here knows if that applies to requesting a 1st IEP and
> evaluation.
>
> Trudy L Pickrel
> President MDPOBC
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Heather Breems