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a new year, more medicaid frustration

So what else is new? right? Received this notice from the facility where our son resides. I am sure you will be receiving a hard copy in the mail, but I wanted to notify you that as of 1/10/2015, David’s Medicaid has denied coverage for residential care and we were notified of this yesterday. (See attached letter) Facility is currently in the process of appealing this decision. I will keep you notified of the results of the appeal process which will be submitted early next week. They enclosed a copy of the notice that they received from the determination company that is under contract to our state Medicaid. The rationale for this decision is: David is a 13 year old boy who is diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and pervasive development disorder. He was in a residential setting in North Dakota for over a year and transferred to the

Generalizations, how they don’t help

We have this saying in the Autism community. “If you have seen a child with Autism, you have seen A child with Autism.” You have seen one child. Why one? Because no two kids are exactly alike, including twins. So why would it be any different for an adopted child? David is adopted. David has, among other things, Reactive Attachment Disorder. I am adopted, I can see similarities in my behaviors as a child to David, just not as severe. I know of a couple of other people, both children and adults, who are adopted. You know what? Unless you know that they are adopted, you can’t tell. It isn’t like they have this tattoo on their arm, like a bar code or something that says “adopted”. Why do I bring this up? If you have seen one child that is adopted, one person that is adopted, you have see

cyber bullying

So today, one of the kids told me about this profile on Twitter referencing the athletic district that we live in. Now I could see such a profile existing if it was just referencing the various athletic events in our area. Sadly this profile is so much more. Trashing people in 140 characters or less is still a form of bullying. Calling someone a slut, or a camel toe is a form of bullying. Just because you can hide your immediate identity behind some anonymous profile picture doesn’t mean that you will be free from prosecution. If you think that poking fun at people on twitter is a good time, you need to do some serious soul searching. You can and will be tracked. How would you feel if you were the target of a twitter attack? And bragging that your previous account got suspended is a good sign that