Family Network On Disabilities

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• Referral from October 21, 2013
  

  Autism M. asked:

  Anonymous question: I'm moving to Bernard county Florida. Looking for advice about the Scott center or any other places in that area. Insurance is an issue. He is in new York but has medicaid. How can I expedite the process?

  

  Julie P. replied:

  CARD USF http://card-usf.fmhi.usf.edu/ and http://www.fndfl.org/ We live in Pinellas county. My daughter was in contained asd units they were really good then we applied for McKay scholarship got a 255 and she now attends a private school.

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• Referral from July 25, 2013
  

  PROWD D. asked:

  Gwen Galligan- Can anyone recommend a good special needs trust/guardianship lawyer in southeast Pennsylvania? Our son, Liam, is turning 15 and it looks like we've got to get moving on these things. Love this site!

  

  Sandra B. replied:

  http://fndfl.org/ - adminsters a national special needs trust Family Network on Disabilities FND fndfl.org Family Network on Disabilities

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• Referral from August 25, 2016
  

  Tammy P. asked:

  I am disheartened by the lack of services for older kids with autism. Any suggestions? My 17 year old is high functioning and would like to get a job. However, finding a job at all much less one that can accommodate his lack of eye contact and significant hand tremor is worrisome. Are there any job placement programs available?

  

  Jim H. replied:

  Is he in a public school? They should have already started the discussion. If not we have lots of guides to help people learn job skills etc. You can pm me if needed. Free resources www.fndfl.org

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• Referral from August 4, 2015
  

  Sara B. asked:

  My son was referred to psychologist in niceville, Dr. Bonnie, but was told it could be a couple weeks to get an evaluation done. He did his in-take 3 weeks ago. We have said he has ASD for over a year. Hurlburt and Eglin never enlightened us we could go through valued options to get our own evaluation done for an official diagnosis prior to dr. Vandecar possibly seeing him.(but now that he is retiring, and coming back as a contractor they now are telling people to go off base.) My son starts full time school on the 17th. I would like to have his evaluation before then, but I do have in all his kindergarten paperwork he is in the process of being officially diagnosed. Does anyone know of a provider that accepts Tricare prime/value options who could possibly see him in the next 2 weeks? The other place said it could be another 3 to 6+ weeks. We've waited long enough and we were not told of it being a delayed evaluation prior to in-take. We were told the opposite when they knew the woman just went on maternity leave.

  

  Jim H. replied:

  That's correct. The school will want to do their own evaluations. They are looking for speech and language and audio visual processing problems. We have free information and education for parents on all of this at www.fndfl.org PM me if you need more information or help

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