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School board approves contracted occupational and physical therapy services for students with disabilities
Summary
The Marion County School District approved consent items 5.6 and 5.7 to provide occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) to students with disabilities under physicians' orders, funded through IDEA and related sources; the services are delivered at schools and often involve contracted providers because the district lacks in-house OT/PT.
The Marion County School Board on a 5-0 vote approved consent agenda items 5.6 and 5.7 to provide occupational therapy and physical therapy as related services for students with disabilities.
District staff described the services as being provided under physician orders and implemented through each student's individualized education program. “Is our occupational therapy services ... it's pretty much doing a doctor sends in the orders and things like that in the student, and recommends health services for the students,”…
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