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Stupid Effing PT!
Jun. 6th, 2008 11:06 amI am really pissed about my kid's early intervention services. Or lack thereof.
When it all started, they were going to assign my kid a PT. Great! Except she's really busy. Boo! But she runs a swim group once a week so we would get to see her every week. Great! Except that it was right smack in the middle of the very important morning nap. Boo! So we went twice and it was simply too much. So then we were going to meet her at the Y before the swim group, so we could get some one-on-one time weekly and then go home and nap. Except she cancelled two out of the three times we were supposed to do that, and then I went to work on Thursdays.
After pushing and pushing, she finally agreed to go to the day care and meet with Jen. And I had to push her into it. And then she wanted to be "flexible" with the time ("Let's say some time between 12 and 2") and I had to 'gently' remind her that Jen was coming from work so she nailed down a time. I kept waiting for her to cancel, and my heart sunk when she called at 9:30pm the night before... but she just decided THEN to ask for the address. Argh!
And then when she finally did go and see my kid, I left Jen a whole list of concerns and things to talk about and the freaking PT was like, "Oh wow, that's great you notice that, it's really subtle, blah blah, it will be fine," and then said she will check back in another month.
OH HELL NO.
I have no idea why this is acceptable to her. A month is a HUGE amount of time for an infant and she's getting to the point where we've gone from being proactively monitoring things to HELLO, SHE IS DELAYED. Kids that were crawling and pulling to stand MONTHS after Punk are now cruising and standing alone and lowering themselves to the floor and all kinds of things that she is clearly unable to do. In a month she will be a year old and then what? THEN they will say she's a late walker and they should do something? Or maybe then she'll say, "Oh well, TECHNICALLY a kid's not a late walker until 15 months..." and then see her again in a month?
I am making a huge stink about this today. Just because I work in EI doesn't mean my kid doesn't deserve to get the right amount of services. I'm more than prepared to go to the Director today.
When it all started, they were going to assign my kid a PT. Great! Except she's really busy. Boo! But she runs a swim group once a week so we would get to see her every week. Great! Except that it was right smack in the middle of the very important morning nap. Boo! So we went twice and it was simply too much. So then we were going to meet her at the Y before the swim group, so we could get some one-on-one time weekly and then go home and nap. Except she cancelled two out of the three times we were supposed to do that, and then I went to work on Thursdays.
After pushing and pushing, she finally agreed to go to the day care and meet with Jen. And I had to push her into it. And then she wanted to be "flexible" with the time ("Let's say some time between 12 and 2") and I had to 'gently' remind her that Jen was coming from work so she nailed down a time. I kept waiting for her to cancel, and my heart sunk when she called at 9:30pm the night before... but she just decided THEN to ask for the address. Argh!
And then when she finally did go and see my kid, I left Jen a whole list of concerns and things to talk about and the freaking PT was like, "Oh wow, that's great you notice that, it's really subtle, blah blah, it will be fine," and then said she will check back in another month.
OH HELL NO.
I have no idea why this is acceptable to her. A month is a HUGE amount of time for an infant and she's getting to the point where we've gone from being proactively monitoring things to HELLO, SHE IS DELAYED. Kids that were crawling and pulling to stand MONTHS after Punk are now cruising and standing alone and lowering themselves to the floor and all kinds of things that she is clearly unable to do. In a month she will be a year old and then what? THEN they will say she's a late walker and they should do something? Or maybe then she'll say, "Oh well, TECHNICALLY a kid's not a late walker until 15 months..." and then see her again in a month?
I am making a huge stink about this today. Just because I work in EI doesn't mean my kid doesn't deserve to get the right amount of services. I'm more than prepared to go to the Director today.
