Nathan's dr. visit. Food issues still.

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Registered: 09-13-2006
Nathan's dr. visit. Food issues still.
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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 3:23pm

Okay, so this technically has nothing to do with spectrum issues, since it's about my nt child, Nathan.

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Registered: 01-16-2006
Thu, 06-28-2007 - 3:13pm

If it helps, you are not alone. Both of mine NT 5 yr old son and PDD 4 yr old DS do not eat fruit or vegatables. The ONLY way I can get anything like that in them is the occassional applesauce, fruit bars, fruit leathers - DD only or fruit snack...and we know how litle fruit is actually in those.....

I have tried it all too.....

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Registered: 01-16-2006
Thu, 06-28-2007 - 3:23pm
amy!! OMG!! That exact same thing happened to me as a child. I had an Aunt who insisted I was too young to know whether I liked green peas (the smell of them makes me nauseaus still). After forcing me to eat them I left loose all over her table. she called my Dad and he said what happened??? She said I made her eat her peas adn...my Dad cut her off and said, but she doesn't like green peas...My aunt was like, yeah, I know!!!!!!
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Registered: 01-16-2006
Thu, 06-28-2007 - 4:03pm
Oh that reminds me..when we found out our kids were having their tonsils and adenoids out, we were very worried about them losing too much weight and one of the suggestions we got was to swap out their ovaltine with Carnation instant breakfast for their cocoa. It won't help with the fruits and veggies but it will help prevent some weight lose etc....
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Registered: 06-28-2007
Thu, 06-28-2007 - 8:16pm
Amy-
You're right, the training for SOS is very expensive. I was lucky to have two OTs who were very interested in getting trained, and that's what it is, a training. It's not a workshop that many therapists go to for information but also to obtain CEU's for state licensing. This training is like a course, and legally only those trained can actually do the therapy- there is not "consulting" to untrained therapists.
If you have a therapist who is interested in getting trained, I believe that therapist can continue to bill under the therapy they've been providing (speech therapy, OT)- both my OTs (one for each kid, the third doesn't have one. . . yet)are billing our insurance and getting paid for all the services they provide under the umbrella of OT. I don't know anything, really, about OT billing, but I believe "feeding" therapy of this kind, for speech therapists, can be billed under oral motor intervention.
Hope that helps, and thanks for the warm invite to stick around. I've been so hesitant to get involved in something like this- most of what I've read in chat rooms seems to be so, almost "cultish" (i.e., this is what we do and what everyone should do, nothing else is valid, etc, etc). It might be because I wasn't looking at chat rooms in anything as organized as iVillage, or that I hadn't found one for kids with Asperger's or higher functioning autism. My kids are either high functioning autism or perhaps Asperger's (with delayed early language development, which I know is a contradiction but apparently they're changing how Asperger's is classified), and while I really feel the term "high" in high functioning is misleading because it makes the general public think our kids are "mild" or not as impaired rather than fighting their own set of issues, I find it very hard to try to have a conversation with a parent whose child is lower functioning or has other major issues going on like being totally non-verbal, or with a cognitive impairment. It's a whole different set of issues we're dealing with- I'm barely understanding what it is to live a life with high functioning autism, I can't even imagine living ones life with a child or children with significant and/or severe language or cognitive impairments, and I don't want to pretend to try. It seems I may find more parents like myself here.
Cynthia

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