Hope & Decisions

I took Peter for a Speech evaluation at our local clinic to start getting therapy there. At the end of the evaluation the woman said she thought he had great potential and that he would probably do very well. She said she has seen many autistic kids like Peter go on to go to regular kindergarten. We are going to try to get him OT (occupational therapy) as well and have them back to back or at the same time. I asked her how often he should get therapy. She said twice a week for speech and twice a week for OT.

Well today I got a call from them saying they contacted my insurance and they will only cover 20 visits a year. I couldn't believe it, that is less than 2 sessions a month! I asked if she told them that he was autistic and she said yes. So apparently that doesn't matter to them. The fact that my son may need to live at home for the rest of his life if he doesn't get the right therapy doesn't matter to them. That made me very mad. But I know there is little I can do. I will be contacting them and seeing if I can appeal this but I don't have high hopes for that.

His OT through early intervention and I both feel like he needs at least 20 hours of therapy (preferably some type of ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapy). But there is nowhere to get that around here and even if there was we don't have the money.

So I made a bunch of phone calls today and just confirmed that IN and PA are the best places for treatment and funding. So Micah will be focusing his job searches there. I really hope we are able to go to PA. Even though their funding is not as good as IN we have friends there and know of a wonderful church there that we would like to be a part of. But we will see. It is all in Gods hands. It may be that God means for us to stay here after all and if so then so be it. But I also know that everything in the world is the Lords and He can provide what we need if it is His will.