ABA services vent and questions
Dec 1, 2016 13:09:39 GMT -5
Post by mamaturtle on Dec 1, 2016 13:09:39 GMT -5
DS has had ABA therapy before for 4 months while he was in preschool for 13 hours a week when 15 hours was the maximum we could possibly get. Prior to that we had a master's degree student that studied to become a BCBA who worked with DS for about a year and received 4 hours a week.
Almost 3 years have passed that we didn't have ABA due to insurance not accepting the services, DS being school age and not having the room to squeeze in the therapy.
We heard through our old master's degree student that they accept our insurance over the summer. So DH and I started on getting ABA therapy with ABA service 1 started for a few months for DS because they finally took DS's health insurance. We wanted to do 6 days a week, 5 of those days at daycare for 1.5 hours each day and the rest of the hours on Saturday. Providing ABA at daycare was flip flopping between yes and no due to insurance and the ABA service 1 researching it. When the insurance and the ABA service 1 said no at one point, I just said we will just do Saturdays. The ABA service 1 then said we had to do 10 hours per week.
Come to find out that now we have to do a copay of $5 a session and the ABA service 1 are pushing for at least 10 hours a week. So we then wanted 3 days a week. 2 of those days will be at daycare for 1.5 hours each day and 3 hours on Saturday with a total of 6 hours. They still said no to 6 hours and wanted 3 hours the 2 days DS was in daycare and raised Saturday to 4 hours. I shot down the 3 hour sessions only because DS is not there because it takes the bus an hour to get to the daycare. So we are at 7 hours per week if the daycare signs the authorization.
We had two ladies come in on separate appointments from the ABA service 1. The first lady did an assessment on DS. DS absolutely loved her and DS did not want her to leave when she had to go.
The second lady that came in this past Saturday was going to be our trainer. It was an introduction and play session. They conducted the session upstairs in DS's room. DS came down the stairs and I told him to go back upstairs to the trainer. The trainer came down the stairs while DS went up them. She told him to come down and he did not listen and she went back upstairs to play a few more minutes or to clean up. I just didn't feel it was the right fit from that one instance but I am willing to give her a chance. The trainer was leaving and DS didn't care if she was leaving. There was no inclination of DS having this woman stay longer like the first lady.
I told DH this and he is going to meet her this Saturday if she comes. I am going to get DH input to see what he thinks.
I have been down that we now have to pay for DS to have services. I even delayed in sharing this because I know others on this board would be jealous of the copays. I am feeling the guilt of DS's diagnosis and that is neither DH or I's fault, why do we have to pay money?
I am already finding that I could care less if this ABA service 1 does pull through or not, apart of me wants to drop it over this one lady and we can't fit it in our schedules. There is another ABA service (ABA service 2) that seems to want us also since we had to do the evaluation with them. We did the evaluation with ABA service 2 in order to get ABA service 1 only because ABA service 2 had a psychologist that can conduct evals to determine diagnosis of ASD. We had to go out of town 3 hours away to get the eval. Both ABA services did not accept our latest eval because it didn't have a LSP portion. Maybe ABA service 2 has better hours.
Some days, apart me is saying DS does not sound that bad in his delays, we still have ST, OT, PT, SW, daycare and Cub Scouts. The other days are just desperate and DS really needs help.
Is there anybody who is doing ABA with a school age child? If so, share your schedule please.
Almost 3 years have passed that we didn't have ABA due to insurance not accepting the services, DS being school age and not having the room to squeeze in the therapy.
We heard through our old master's degree student that they accept our insurance over the summer. So DH and I started on getting ABA therapy with ABA service 1 started for a few months for DS because they finally took DS's health insurance. We wanted to do 6 days a week, 5 of those days at daycare for 1.5 hours each day and the rest of the hours on Saturday. Providing ABA at daycare was flip flopping between yes and no due to insurance and the ABA service 1 researching it. When the insurance and the ABA service 1 said no at one point, I just said we will just do Saturdays. The ABA service 1 then said we had to do 10 hours per week.
Come to find out that now we have to do a copay of $5 a session and the ABA service 1 are pushing for at least 10 hours a week. So we then wanted 3 days a week. 2 of those days will be at daycare for 1.5 hours each day and 3 hours on Saturday with a total of 6 hours. They still said no to 6 hours and wanted 3 hours the 2 days DS was in daycare and raised Saturday to 4 hours. I shot down the 3 hour sessions only because DS is not there because it takes the bus an hour to get to the daycare. So we are at 7 hours per week if the daycare signs the authorization.
We had two ladies come in on separate appointments from the ABA service 1. The first lady did an assessment on DS. DS absolutely loved her and DS did not want her to leave when she had to go.
The second lady that came in this past Saturday was going to be our trainer. It was an introduction and play session. They conducted the session upstairs in DS's room. DS came down the stairs and I told him to go back upstairs to the trainer. The trainer came down the stairs while DS went up them. She told him to come down and he did not listen and she went back upstairs to play a few more minutes or to clean up. I just didn't feel it was the right fit from that one instance but I am willing to give her a chance. The trainer was leaving and DS didn't care if she was leaving. There was no inclination of DS having this woman stay longer like the first lady.
I told DH this and he is going to meet her this Saturday if she comes. I am going to get DH input to see what he thinks.
I have been down that we now have to pay for DS to have services. I even delayed in sharing this because I know others on this board would be jealous of the copays. I am feeling the guilt of DS's diagnosis and that is neither DH or I's fault, why do we have to pay money?
I am already finding that I could care less if this ABA service 1 does pull through or not, apart of me wants to drop it over this one lady and we can't fit it in our schedules. There is another ABA service (ABA service 2) that seems to want us also since we had to do the evaluation with them. We did the evaluation with ABA service 2 in order to get ABA service 1 only because ABA service 2 had a psychologist that can conduct evals to determine diagnosis of ASD. We had to go out of town 3 hours away to get the eval. Both ABA services did not accept our latest eval because it didn't have a LSP portion. Maybe ABA service 2 has better hours.
Some days, apart me is saying DS does not sound that bad in his delays, we still have ST, OT, PT, SW, daycare and Cub Scouts. The other days are just desperate and DS really needs help.
Is there anybody who is doing ABA with a school age child? If so, share your schedule please.
