Guess It Isn't Over YET

Much to my surprise and dismay, I received a phone call letting me know that insurance wanted a copy of Alex's IEP (Indivualized Education Plan) from the school system's preschool he attends. I suppose they want to review what services he's getting there and base their decision as to how much (if any) therapy they will cover aside from that.

Here is where I am coming from: Any research I have done recommends that a child with apraxia in the severe category, such as Alex, receive ongoing frequent intensive therapy from a speech language pathologist who is knowledgeable and experienced with treating apraxia. Frequent is defined as UP TO five days per week for UP TO 40 minutes. Alex is receiving 9 hours of special education services, only one hour of which is SUPPOSE to be individual speech therapy. However, I have been informed that there have often been one to two other children joining Alex for therapy in a small group setting. They simply do not have the time to work individually with the large caseload of children that they have. The speech therapist is great, don't get me wrong. However, I do not believe he is probably getting appropriate therapy in the manner in which is recommended for a child with such a disorder, in the school system.

I spoke with Alex's speech therapist and she is getting together a letter for us to send with the copy of the IEP to the insurance company to let them know WHY it is so important for Alex to be getting treatment in addition to the school system. She is awesome and has been such a big help to us. We are so ready to get started back to therapy! We miss our Kate!

Seems like I've been so swallowed up in research and paperwork and phone calls lately. I cannot wait until all of this is finally past us and we can concentrate on what's REALLY important here, and that's Alex!