Thank you all for replying me.
Shree.
You don't legally have to tell the school that your daughter is on medication. But it is usually a good thing to do in case an adverse reaction were to happen. If the meds are not given at school, though, that is totally your call as to what you want to disclose to school staff. Like I said, a good reason would be in case an adverse reaction were to happen.
About the OT, just because the doc recommended it doesn't mean the school has to provide it. Sometimes this helps, but it doesn't automatically mean your child will get the OT services because the doc recommended it. If you think that your child should get OT, request in writing for an OT evaluation. There are certain criteria, that i am not familiar with, that your child will have to meet to be educationally eligible for OT services through the school.
If you can't get OT through the school even after an OT evaluation, it is possible for you to take your child out of school for that hour a week. But you would need to make sure that the hour she is missing isn't anything that will impact progress. For example, if you have an appt every Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. and your daughter arrives at school at 9:15 a.m. every Tuesday morning, you wouldn't want that time missed to be reading or math. The best bet would be to miss the last hour of the day. Of course, if you do this, then you will have to by-pass check out and check in policies so that she isn't counted tardy or counted as having unexcused checkouts. All you should have to do for this is to have it documented in the IEP that she will be missing an hour a week and that attendance policies will be waived in this event. The school probably won't see it as their job to provide anything extra for the hour she is missing school because it will be your decesion to take her out of school that hour every week. Now, if the school should be providing OT and is not and you take her out of school for an hour every week to get those services, that is a whole other story. But just by you deciding to get her some private clinical OT services that requires her to miss an hour of school a week is not something the school is going to make up for.
I would be willing to bet that even if they do excuse her to miss that hour a week to go to therapy, if she misses a major academic class, they are going to require her work be done as homework.
Just be really careful about what you pull her out of during the school day, but it is possible and you will want to document it in the IEP for attendance policies.
Why isn't she recieving ot at school? Yes it would have been a good idea to notify the teacher about the meds. This way the teacher could have kept a behavior chart. But do no beat yourself up over this. We all make mistakes.
Welcome to the board.
I am new to this forum.I have a 6 year old autistic daughter.She is in kinder in general ed with sp ed support.She is doing good in her acadamics but having behaviour issues.I have a few questions.Please help me on this.
1.We started medication for her anxiety before 1 month.Today we went and talked to her teacher and asked how she is doing in class.The teacher is surprised and asked how come she didn't know about her medication.But already the teacher has a filled a questionare which was given by my developmental pediatrition.After recalling it she said 'yeah'.My question is should i have inform the school about her medication when she started itself?Did I made a mistake?
2.Her Dr recommended OT which is not given in school.I am trying to get it outside.But I am not getting after school timings.So I am thinking of pulling her out of the school for 1 hr once a week.Can I do it? Should it be informed thru IEP/ARD?What happens to that specific class time in the school? Will it interfer in her progress?
Pl assist me in this.
shree.
ONe reason to NOT notify the school right away about medication or medication changes is that it's often good to get their blind reaction. Sometimes if they think something should be different with a student, they will "See" a difference, even if it's not there. This is human nature. HOwever, it's good to let them know eventually and also to be near the phone the first few days of a med in case there is a negative reaction.
The school district HAS to provide OT if the OT eval comes back recommending OT. Not many school districts have OT's on staff. They bring them in from the outside, by contract, for the students who need the OT. If the school's OT eval comes back negative and you disagree, you can ask them to pay for a second opinion at the OT of your choice. This is called an INdependent Educational Evaluation at public expense.