Therapy-Free Summer

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It has officially begun. Not summer, yet, but our break from therapies.  I felt like they were handing us the Golden Ticket when D1’s OT said, “You guys need to have a break. Enjoy the summer together as a family and don’t worry about therapies. You deserve it.”

Ten years. 10 years of

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Life After OT

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“When was the last time you guys took a break from therapies?” His OT asked me this question, and I hadn’t really thought about it before. 

“Never,” I replied, “we’ve been at this 2-3 times a week for 10 years.”

Wow.  The realization hit me pretty hard after I said

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Social Group

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D1 is in his final two weeks of Speech/OT “Social Group”. He’s been going for 45 minutes each Friday. He has been approved to start full OT again, and the OT and SLP are going to change things up once school starts. There is another boy in his group, a year younger, whom

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OT Re-Evaluation is done

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A week ago, D1 was re-evaluated for OT. She didn’t tell me the results right off, but we know his sensory profile is indicative, and she both did observation while he had speech therapy, and then did some things with him herself.

He began a Speech/OT summer group on Friday,

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His IEP Expired!

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D1’s IEP expires today. He will go to Resource today, and speech, and then we are done with the public school system. Yesterday I called the pediatrician about the OT Eval. recommendation again, actually for both of my boys this time.

His private speech therapist is looking for a second

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