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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 143531" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We had Dore ring us up trying to sell us a program. I'm just using it as an example.</p><p></p><p>I watched the video they sent me, I looked up information about them, the more I read the more I thought, "Why is this so expensive?" Then I noted the marketing (very labour-intensive, a lot of people involved) and figured why.</p><p></p><p>I talked to my sister - I remembered when her son was younger (about 30 years ago) an Occupational Therapist (OT) gave them some worksheets and showed them how to modify basic equipment to make balance boards, a cargo net swing etc and gave them some exercises to do with him, such as put him in the cargo net swing and while he is swinging, throw him a large ball. He had to throw the ball and catch it, while swinging, while balancing, etc. They set it up in their garage and found it helped him a lot. All it cost was the time and the materials to make the stuff.</p><p></p><p>I've since heard that the bloke who 'invented' the Dore program was a father of a child in a similar situation. He put to commercial use the stuff he learned while trying to help his daughter, and this program is the result. A lot of the equipment is now hi-tech, but I've used the same hi-tech equipment at a medical centre which was trying to assess my balance.</p><p></p><p>Is Dore a good program? Probably. Does it have to be so expensive? I don't think so, not if you do it yourself the way my sister did. But the more you use professional support and make appointments etc, the more investment you have in continuing with the program and really working with it.</p><p></p><p>For us? We can't afford it, plus the centres are too far away for us to get to. But we can do our own version of it, just as my sister did for her son.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that was just an example. Sometimes you need to really look into something to see if you can find another way, especially if you can't really afford what is being suggested.</p><p></p><p>Another example - a neighbour sells a certain juice promoted as an antioxidant. She swears by it, says it's really good for treating kids with ADHD. Her own daughter has brain damage following surgery, she reckons it's been a great help to her daughter. The hype says it will cure everything (which is as impossible a claim as "universal solvent" - what would you keep it in?) and has a very long list of conditions allegedly helped by this magic juice. It really does sound too good to be true. But the darn stuff costs several hundred dollars a bottle.</p><p>She sells it to various families in the neighbourhood that she knows and is very vocal about "parents who drug their children into submission". She also tries to recruit other people to sell it too, because selling this stuff is also a lucrative part-time job. </p><p>The thing is, it's a disguised pyramid scheme. For every sale, she gets commission. Fair enough. But for every seller she recruits, she gets to buy the stuff more cheaply. It's set up so if she recruits two other sellers, she gets the stuff at half price (I'm approximating here).</p><p>An Aussie consumer magazine recently analysed the antioxidant power of this stuff and the results were that you can get more antioxidant benefit from eating an apple.</p><p>People see "antioxidant" in a label and feel justified in spending a lot of money on a product, but we forget - Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Often where a product is marketed (for a higher price) with a label saying "antioxidant added" but doesn't tell you WHICH antioxidant, chances are it's just got a spoonful of ascorbic acid, which you can buy in a large jar for a few dollars.</p><p></p><p>So without knowing more about this program, I can't tell you any more. Except to say - if it sounds too good to be true, and you get the feeling that the price has been set purely because enough desperate parents will pay up, then go cautiously.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 143531, member: 1991"] We had Dore ring us up trying to sell us a program. I'm just using it as an example. I watched the video they sent me, I looked up information about them, the more I read the more I thought, "Why is this so expensive?" Then I noted the marketing (very labour-intensive, a lot of people involved) and figured why. I talked to my sister - I remembered when her son was younger (about 30 years ago) an Occupational Therapist (OT) gave them some worksheets and showed them how to modify basic equipment to make balance boards, a cargo net swing etc and gave them some exercises to do with him, such as put him in the cargo net swing and while he is swinging, throw him a large ball. He had to throw the ball and catch it, while swinging, while balancing, etc. They set it up in their garage and found it helped him a lot. All it cost was the time and the materials to make the stuff. I've since heard that the bloke who 'invented' the Dore program was a father of a child in a similar situation. He put to commercial use the stuff he learned while trying to help his daughter, and this program is the result. A lot of the equipment is now hi-tech, but I've used the same hi-tech equipment at a medical centre which was trying to assess my balance. Is Dore a good program? Probably. Does it have to be so expensive? I don't think so, not if you do it yourself the way my sister did. But the more you use professional support and make appointments etc, the more investment you have in continuing with the program and really working with it. For us? We can't afford it, plus the centres are too far away for us to get to. But we can do our own version of it, just as my sister did for her son. Anyway, that was just an example. Sometimes you need to really look into something to see if you can find another way, especially if you can't really afford what is being suggested. Another example - a neighbour sells a certain juice promoted as an antioxidant. She swears by it, says it's really good for treating kids with ADHD. Her own daughter has brain damage following surgery, she reckons it's been a great help to her daughter. The hype says it will cure everything (which is as impossible a claim as "universal solvent" - what would you keep it in?) and has a very long list of conditions allegedly helped by this magic juice. It really does sound too good to be true. But the darn stuff costs several hundred dollars a bottle. She sells it to various families in the neighbourhood that she knows and is very vocal about "parents who drug their children into submission". She also tries to recruit other people to sell it too, because selling this stuff is also a lucrative part-time job. The thing is, it's a disguised pyramid scheme. For every sale, she gets commission. Fair enough. But for every seller she recruits, she gets to buy the stuff more cheaply. It's set up so if she recruits two other sellers, she gets the stuff at half price (I'm approximating here). An Aussie consumer magazine recently analysed the antioxidant power of this stuff and the results were that you can get more antioxidant benefit from eating an apple. People see "antioxidant" in a label and feel justified in spending a lot of money on a product, but we forget - Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Often where a product is marketed (for a higher price) with a label saying "antioxidant added" but doesn't tell you WHICH antioxidant, chances are it's just got a spoonful of ascorbic acid, which you can buy in a large jar for a few dollars. So without knowing more about this program, I can't tell you any more. Except to say - if it sounds too good to be true, and you get the feeling that the price has been set purely because enough desperate parents will pay up, then go cautiously. Marg [/QUOTE]
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