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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 511601" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Having faced the same thing....(but now it is all different so we can do all of them, sigh, at least for now with more open time) here is how I ranked it....of course this is just for us but ????</p><p></p><p>1. Occupational Therapist (OT) stuff can over-ride so much....it can really contribute to the anxiety and a large part of what they do in that therapy ends up working/influencing work on tolerance and frustration and anxiety. Regardless of what causes it when they learn those tools it can help with the feeling of anxiety or not being able to sit still or whatever.... from any cause. So even though I am an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), I admit for these variety kids with behaviors that show a sensory or motor involvement, I would shoot for that as much as possible, they get far less of this in schools than the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) help. </p><p></p><p>2. If he has Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) on the IEP, then have a private meeting with the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), not an IEP meeting so you can go through the evaluation results and ask how the goals can incorporate more of the findings and recommendations for services...they should not be separated so much, it is just harder to word how it is directly related to school stuff but any clinician worth their salt can do that. Then if she feels the goals actually need to be changed to accommodate, have a small IEP meeting and do a significant change form just for those goals/objectives. Does not have to be a big deal.</p><p></p><p>3. In summer, see if you can do some back to back therapies more intensively to add on the private Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), with the Occupational Therapist (OT) and others. You may be able to hire someone to drive him. for a few of the times to ease your mom's burden (I am in that same boat too..trying not to use her too much).</p><p></p><p>4. Individual play therapy....I admit is low on my list but we do therapy once every two weeks. Then it is not so intensive. Turns out he really likes her so summer again we may up that.</p><p></p><p>5. the social skills development, I have found over the years some of it is good, some is just too group oriented. WE had the most success with private pay classes thru the Occupational Therapist (OT) and speech centers that did a dual therapist class for social skills. They taught him things like if you want to throw a ball back and forth...first you call the name, make sure they are looking THEN you can throw TO them etc... those direct teaching details that are lost on some of our kids. We did adaptive art but it was fun to be with the other kids but not really very interactive. So many of the classes sounded great then ended up not being so great and then things I never thought would be so wonderful were amazing (like adapted sports ended up being far more effective for social skills training than formal social skills groups). NO good answer here, just sharing my experience over the years.</p><p></p><p>Not sure that is very helpful, but it is how I just recently sorted through this...</p><p></p><p>HUGS and best wishes on this leg of the journey!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 511601, member: 12886"] Having faced the same thing....(but now it is all different so we can do all of them, sigh, at least for now with more open time) here is how I ranked it....of course this is just for us but ???? 1. Occupational Therapist (OT) stuff can over-ride so much....it can really contribute to the anxiety and a large part of what they do in that therapy ends up working/influencing work on tolerance and frustration and anxiety. Regardless of what causes it when they learn those tools it can help with the feeling of anxiety or not being able to sit still or whatever.... from any cause. So even though I am an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), I admit for these variety kids with behaviors that show a sensory or motor involvement, I would shoot for that as much as possible, they get far less of this in schools than the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) help. 2. If he has Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) on the IEP, then have a private meeting with the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), not an IEP meeting so you can go through the evaluation results and ask how the goals can incorporate more of the findings and recommendations for services...they should not be separated so much, it is just harder to word how it is directly related to school stuff but any clinician worth their salt can do that. Then if she feels the goals actually need to be changed to accommodate, have a small IEP meeting and do a significant change form just for those goals/objectives. Does not have to be a big deal. 3. In summer, see if you can do some back to back therapies more intensively to add on the private Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), with the Occupational Therapist (OT) and others. You may be able to hire someone to drive him. for a few of the times to ease your mom's burden (I am in that same boat too..trying not to use her too much). 4. Individual play therapy....I admit is low on my list but we do therapy once every two weeks. Then it is not so intensive. Turns out he really likes her so summer again we may up that. 5. the social skills development, I have found over the years some of it is good, some is just too group oriented. WE had the most success with private pay classes thru the Occupational Therapist (OT) and speech centers that did a dual therapist class for social skills. They taught him things like if you want to throw a ball back and forth...first you call the name, make sure they are looking THEN you can throw TO them etc... those direct teaching details that are lost on some of our kids. We did adaptive art but it was fun to be with the other kids but not really very interactive. So many of the classes sounded great then ended up not being so great and then things I never thought would be so wonderful were amazing (like adapted sports ended up being far more effective for social skills training than formal social skills groups). NO good answer here, just sharing my experience over the years. Not sure that is very helpful, but it is how I just recently sorted through this... HUGS and best wishes on this leg of the journey! [/QUOTE]
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