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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 520811" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Share this with the therapist. Involve her, engage her in your brand of problems. She also needs to know how things went after you got home. She needs to see that she des not have the cure-all. From there, you could be in luck - once she gets it, she could be in a position to either refer you to someone more appropriate, or she may be able to adapt to his needs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It is scary, but I came to the conclusion years ago that I know my child best and in the absence of professional services which can meet his needs, I am the best option. Where no therapies existed then I invented something myself. It is interesting now to see easy child 2/difficult child 2 using my techniques on her autistic student that she is an aide for. She has found some of my techniques repeated in textbooks, but a lot are not. I reminded her of a couple last week and she is trying them.</p><p></p><p>Role playing games are really effective, suggest them to the therapist. Tea parties are a good way of teaching turn-taking and good manners. Might not work so well for boys... doing a puzzle together, each of you taking turns to put a piece of puzzle in place, is another good one. Rolling a ball to one another - if you don't roll it back, you can't receive it again! Board games are good. Card games (Go Fish). Chess, for older kids who can handle it. They all involve turn-taking and some level of strategy.</p><p></p><p>When I was especially bedridden, I had a game I played with the kids that involved a balloon. I would be lying on the bed and could use any part of my body to hit the balloon back. The kid had to stop the balloon from landing on the floor. Hitting only, no holding the balloon. One kid at a time otherwise it is too challenging and the game is unbalanced. </p><p></p><p>Reading books together is good - one of us would read the speech tags as dialogue and put on different voices, while the other read the narration. We would swap over too, and I loved to hear difficult child 3 put my intonations and expression into the readings, he learned to read with expression that way. We would snuggle on the bed and read the same book together. A special treat. Wish he'd do it now, but at 18...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 520811, member: 1991"] Share this with the therapist. Involve her, engage her in your brand of problems. She also needs to know how things went after you got home. She needs to see that she des not have the cure-all. From there, you could be in luck - once she gets it, she could be in a position to either refer you to someone more appropriate, or she may be able to adapt to his needs. It is scary, but I came to the conclusion years ago that I know my child best and in the absence of professional services which can meet his needs, I am the best option. Where no therapies existed then I invented something myself. It is interesting now to see easy child 2/difficult child 2 using my techniques on her autistic student that she is an aide for. She has found some of my techniques repeated in textbooks, but a lot are not. I reminded her of a couple last week and she is trying them. Role playing games are really effective, suggest them to the therapist. Tea parties are a good way of teaching turn-taking and good manners. Might not work so well for boys... doing a puzzle together, each of you taking turns to put a piece of puzzle in place, is another good one. Rolling a ball to one another - if you don't roll it back, you can't receive it again! Board games are good. Card games (Go Fish). Chess, for older kids who can handle it. They all involve turn-taking and some level of strategy. When I was especially bedridden, I had a game I played with the kids that involved a balloon. I would be lying on the bed and could use any part of my body to hit the balloon back. The kid had to stop the balloon from landing on the floor. Hitting only, no holding the balloon. One kid at a time otherwise it is too challenging and the game is unbalanced. Reading books together is good - one of us would read the speech tags as dialogue and put on different voices, while the other read the narration. We would swap over too, and I loved to hear difficult child 3 put my intonations and expression into the readings, he learned to read with expression that way. We would snuggle on the bed and read the same book together. A special treat. Wish he'd do it now, but at 18... Marg [/QUOTE]
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