Reason for Denial: "Speech Therapy Must Result in Significant Improvement
(or, Significant Improvement has not Resulted After __ Months/Years of Therapy)."
If you or your SLP have been documenting your child's progress, this information should be useful to show gains made. Document all gains (receptive, expressive,
speech, language) and use what is applicable. Some insurance companies will require regular periodic progress reports. If yours doesn't, ask your therapist to provide these to you on a regular basis. Thus if your insurance company comes back later with this type of denial, you will have proof of the progress.
Speechville Express
is a resource for families, educators, and medical professionals, offering
information about language development in children, helping those who
care for toddlers and young children who are late talkers, and connecting
you with others who have been down this road. Language disorders and
communication impairments included are apraxia, stuttering, pervasive
developmental disorder, dysarthria, and aphasia, among others.
aphasia
