Day 70: Tips for Selecting Home-based Service Providers

There are a number of reasons why your child may require a home-based service provider:

  1. Applied Behavior Analysis (“ABA”) therapy or ABA instruction through your health insurance or school district;

  2. Remedial tutoring through the school district; and

  3. Speech/language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and counseling through your health insurance or school district.

Of course, you want to make sure that you trust the provider’s judgment, competence, work ethic, and character. After all, this provider may be spending hours each week inside your home, and sometimes out in the community, with your child.

It is also important to screen providers for their commitment to advocacy for your child. Will he or she—

  • Call in for an IEP meeting for your child?

  • Write a letter in support of ongoing services?

  • Carefully explain your child’s therapeutic or instructional plan to you?

  • Give you helpful feedback on your own attempts to carry out the service in the provider’s absence?

If you think your child may need extended school day services, book a virtual consultation on my website: https://www.MSRLegal.ORG/Book-Your-Consultation . Also, don’t forget to follow @MSRLegalConsulting on Instagram where I post about the evolving landscape of special education in the wake of Covid-19.

Be safe and well,

Oroma

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Applied Behavior Analysis, BCBA, autism awareness, Autism, Child care, Children's Mental Health, Children's Advocacy, remedial tutoringOroma Mpi-Reynolds, Esq.applied behavior analysis, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Child care, Children's Advocacy, remedial tutoring