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Oh and just in case you were curious, I looked it up. In Alabama, the 0-3 Early Intervention program is ran by the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services. They transition to the Alabama State Department of Education school systems at age 3. See this link for details: Alabama's Early Intervention System (birth to 3)
I believe you. The name just sounded familiar. Here it's birth-three for early intervention for special needs kids and speech problems. I think they are all under the schools. Depending on where you are, you can get your child into the program for minor things that don't legally qualify for services. My oldest son is in an inner city system where you wouldn't get help for anything minor because they have such a long list of kids needing intervention. My youngest three are in a suburban system and my son had a very mild speech issue which the pathologist had time to nip in the bud. Don't know how I blathered into that. Sorry.
I believe you. The name just sounded familiar. Here it's birth-three for early intervention for special needs kids and speech problems. I think they are all under the schools. Depending on where you are, you can get your child into the program for minor things that don't legally qualify for services. My oldest son is in an inner city system where you wouldn't get help for anything minor because they have such a long list of kids needing intervention. My youngest three are in a suburban system and my son had a very mild speech issue which the pathologist had time to nip in the bud. Don't know how I blathered into that. Sorry.
Ah, got it! Yeah, I think each state is required to have some sort of birth to 3 program, but how they implement it is up to them, so they all do it different. I do feel bad for kids who would get help if they just lived somewhere else, but have to sit on a waiting list. I will admit that I like to think that my opting out of public school services for my son (and paying for private instead) opened up a slot for another kid to get services who otherwise would not have been able to. We are very lucky that due to my son's particular diagnosis (epilepsy), our insurance helps pay for a lot of therapy. Some kids don't get diagnosed for a long time, or only get diagnosed with things that insurance companies or private schools don't really recognize, and their parents have a hard time getting them the right services. One of my son's therapists actually used to be an accountant, and only became a therapist because her daughter has Auditory Processing Disorder and needed therapy, but the disorder wasn't "recognized" and so she couldn't get any.
I believe you. The name just sounded familiar. Here it's birth-three for early intervention for special needs kids and speech problems. I think they are all under the schools. Depending on where you are, you can get your child into the program for minor things that don't legally qualify for services. My oldest son is in an inner city system where you wouldn't get help for anything minor because they have such a long list of kids needing intervention. My youngest three are in a suburban system and my son had a very mild speech issue which the pathologist had time to nip in the bud. Don't know how I blathered into that. Sorry.
You touched on something without realizing it. The numbers of kids needing special services in most urban and poor school systems overwhelm the schools.
People complain about the cost/student but ignore (or don't know/care) that Special Ed is included in the per student cost. And Special Ed is incredibly expensive.
I grew up in the area and I know the schools well. I've been to all of them at some point in my life for one reason or another, band trips, math team, dance competitions, etc. We live in Alabama. When we bought our house after getting married, we went a little too far out, and within a few years got rezoned from the suburb schools to the county "redneck" schools. Alabama rednecks are generally very lovely people, but they are not known for their academic prowess. Neither are their schools.
I did actually do a numbers to numbers comparison by hand before my eldest started Kindergarten of most of the area high schools, consisting of student-teacher ratio, number of advanced and AP classes, percentage of National Merit Semi-Finalists, percentage of graduates going on to a 4 year college. I ranked them, and our public school was down near the very bottom.
I have a lot of friends who went to the local county schools. Many of them are very smart, and tested gifted in school. But most of them either did not go to college at all, or attempted community college or beauty school, but dropped out. Not because they aren't smart or hard working, but because they were not adequately prepared.
You know, the fact that you live in a rural school district sheds new light on why you're so strong for private schools. Makes sense now.
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