Guest guest Posted August 22, 2003 Report Share Posted August 22, 2003 Welcome Robin, I am sorry I am know help with your questions but I wanted to say hello. I am relativly new my self our son (Reuben age 5) will be recieving his first pair of hearing aids a week from today. He has mild loss in his right ear and mod. loss in his left ear. I hope someone with more experience can help you. Sonya > Hi! > > I'm Robin M, Maggie's Mom. Maggie is 2 and 1/2 and has profound > loss in the left ear and moderate loss in the right ear. She wears > digital hearing aids and an fm system and we work with an auditory > verbal therapist. Maggie also has Down Syndrome. > > We've been pleased with progress that Maggie has made with AV. Our > early intervention program has paid for all her therapies up till > this point. Now we're trying to transition to preschool in the > public school. Unfortunately, the DOE in Virginia does not > recognize AV as the therapy needed to support AV as a mode of > communication. I'm sure you've heard that plenty on times. > > My argument is there is no trained teacher of the hearing impaired > and no ST with current training in AV. But, they are still refusing > to contract with an AVT. Their main argument being they will train > their ST's through in-service etc. > > I've requested my PWN after refusing the IEP. Do I need to just ask > for mediation now? > > What are my " real " chances of getting anywhere? I feel like I'm > wasting a lot of valuable time trying to work this out and getting > no where. Plus I can't afford to go to court and lose. > > Any suggestions? > > BTW: I've argued ASHA code of ethics, mode of communication, quality > of therapy, etc etc from Listen-up site. Evidentially, they've > heard it all before. > > Thanks! > > Robin M - Maggie's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2003 Report Share Posted August 22, 2003 Welcome Robin, I am sorry I am know help with your questions but I wanted to say hello. I am relativly new my self our son (Reuben age 5) will be recieving his first pair of hearing aids a week from today. He has mild loss in his right ear and mod. loss in his left ear. I hope someone with more experience can help you. Sonya > Hi! > > I'm Robin M, Maggie's Mom. Maggie is 2 and 1/2 and has profound > loss in the left ear and moderate loss in the right ear. She wears > digital hearing aids and an fm system and we work with an auditory > verbal therapist. Maggie also has Down Syndrome. > > We've been pleased with progress that Maggie has made with AV. Our > early intervention program has paid for all her therapies up till > this point. Now we're trying to transition to preschool in the > public school. Unfortunately, the DOE in Virginia does not > recognize AV as the therapy needed to support AV as a mode of > communication. I'm sure you've heard that plenty on times. > > My argument is there is no trained teacher of the hearing impaired > and no ST with current training in AV. But, they are still refusing > to contract with an AVT. Their main argument being they will train > their ST's through in-service etc. > > I've requested my PWN after refusing the IEP. Do I need to just ask > for mediation now? > > What are my " real " chances of getting anywhere? I feel like I'm > wasting a lot of valuable time trying to work this out and getting > no where. Plus I can't afford to go to court and lose. > > Any suggestions? > > BTW: I've argued ASHA code of ethics, mode of communication, quality > of therapy, etc etc from Listen-up site. Evidentially, they've > heard it all before. > > Thanks! > > Robin M - Maggie's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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