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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 8287" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>With our difficult child, our sd had the same attitude as yours. One of the sadder parts is that they had a very good Occupational Therapist (OT) that did difficult childs evaluation and her report identified and addressed the specific problems, but everything recommended was for parents to do, e.g., no educational impact so no Occupational Therapist (OT) at school. Pure bunk, but a blessing in disguise. Like I said earlier, chances are youd want private Occupational Therapist (OT) with, at best, supplement therapy by the sd.</p><p></p><p>Just so you know, motor skill problems are very complex and impact learning in a variety of ways. Impaired motor skills can impact sequencing, perceptual skills, processing skills, the ability to transfer a learned skill from one task to a similar task automatically and on and on.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.apraxia-kids.org/" target="_blank">http://www.apraxia-kids.org/</a> contains an overview of just fine motor skills.</p><p></p><p>My son has had many intensive therapies. If I knew then what I know now, the other therapies would have been put on the back burner and I would have hit the fine and gross motor skill problems early and hard. Why? Todays motor skills are the foundation upon which all future learning is based -- kind of like building a 20 floor high-rise office building. If the foundation isn't sound, each floor of construction adds additional weight to a foundation that will not be able to support it. Sooner or later, the foundation will fail. It may begin to show up with cracks in the lobby floor or cracks in the brick walls. Maybe a window cracks from the pressure when the building shifts ever so slightly. Perhaps doors suddenly wont stay open or cant be closed. Then water pipes start breaking for no apparent reason. The longer the wait to get the foundation repaired, the more damage done to the building, and the more time and cost involved to repair it.</p><p></p><p>difficult child benefited greatly from his therapies, but Ive second guessed the order in which his therapies were delivered repeatedly. Would the auditory processing therapy been more effective if hed had Occupational Therapist (OT) first? Maybe his language therapy would have progressed faster and more effectively? Would his attention be better? Maybe his ability to follow directions would have been improved and there would have been less behavior problems at school, less learning difficulties? I suspect the answer to each question is yes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 8287, member: 23"] With our difficult child, our sd had the same attitude as yours. One of the sadder parts is that they had a very good Occupational Therapist (OT) that did difficult childs evaluation and her report identified and addressed the specific problems, but everything recommended was for parents to do, e.g., no educational impact so no Occupational Therapist (OT) at school. Pure bunk, but a blessing in disguise. Like I said earlier, chances are youd want private Occupational Therapist (OT) with, at best, supplement therapy by the sd. Just so you know, motor skill problems are very complex and impact learning in a variety of ways. Impaired motor skills can impact sequencing, perceptual skills, processing skills, the ability to transfer a learned skill from one task to a similar task automatically and on and on. [url]http://www.apraxia-kids.org/[/url] contains an overview of just fine motor skills. My son has had many intensive therapies. If I knew then what I know now, the other therapies would have been put on the back burner and I would have hit the fine and gross motor skill problems early and hard. Why? Todays motor skills are the foundation upon which all future learning is based -- kind of like building a 20 floor high-rise office building. If the foundation isn't sound, each floor of construction adds additional weight to a foundation that will not be able to support it. Sooner or later, the foundation will fail. It may begin to show up with cracks in the lobby floor or cracks in the brick walls. Maybe a window cracks from the pressure when the building shifts ever so slightly. Perhaps doors suddenly wont stay open or cant be closed. Then water pipes start breaking for no apparent reason. The longer the wait to get the foundation repaired, the more damage done to the building, and the more time and cost involved to repair it. difficult child benefited greatly from his therapies, but Ive second guessed the order in which his therapies were delivered repeatedly. Would the auditory processing therapy been more effective if hed had Occupational Therapist (OT) first? Maybe his language therapy would have progressed faster and more effectively? Would his attention be better? Maybe his ability to follow directions would have been improved and there would have been less behavior problems at school, less learning difficulties? I suspect the answer to each question is yes. [/QUOTE]
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