OT eval for Cian...ideas????
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OT eval for Cian...ideas????
| Thu, 11-16-2006 - 12:37pm |
Well after all the palaver of yesterday (never a dull moment Dee strikes again), we were back to the usual; therapy appts et al, lol.

I installed a swing in our basement, with eye-rings and anchor hooks that are right in the exposed headbeams.
Also if you can't afford a velcro wall (lol), go with a ladder attached to the wall....I need one of those bad for the climbing days.
30 minutes a week must be the standard answer they give parents when it comes to OT. If I were you I'd request an IEE for OT and see what the private evaluation says. The school has to pay for the IEE.
Doing stuff at home is great and wonderful, but you need to get as much as you can from the school.
First, ITA with Renee, 1x30 sounds stingy. Our district always starts with at least 2x30; -and I thought that was bad!
For UB and arms: you start on the large muscles in the shoulders and arms and work down to the hands.
Wheelbarrow walking is brilliant -if he has the strength between his shoulders to actually *do* it.
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hehehe, well here actually at 1x a week you are doing pretty good. The company I work for pretty much does 1x a week standard for most kids with extra consulting so that it is carried over during the rest of the week. Like you said even 2 times is not enough it needs to be practiced daily but the teachers or aides can do that part as well. For kids with more severe needs or immediate needs they will offer 2 a week and we are pretty darn progressive.
We recently got a contract to work in my home district. I think we maybe had 5-10 kids from 65+ on our original caseload that had 1x a week. About half had 2x a month, and the rest were 1x a month or less. Yes tehre are many with 3 or 4x a year consults. The 1x a monthers and less are your sensory kids and they provide consulting for them. That's it. Any kid that had more than that came from out of district and infact I would say about 1/2 of our 1x a week kids also came from out of district.
I used to be really ticked that Mike only had 1x a month. He had 1x a week at a private sensory clinic for about a year. He was the first, last and only (other than my friends boy who I also got for one 3 month session because I went to his IEP meetings) They re-evaled that every 3 months and finally he made enough progress and I got tired of fighting for it. They have built a sensory gym in district but they don't send any of the kids there that I know of. The district OT hates me now because I think she got in trouble because she made some observations that I used to get the kind of services he got.
oh well, that is way off the original topic. I have to think on the OT recomendations. I am sure I have some.
Renee
I guess that explains why our county has the second-highest property tax in the nation...
-Paula
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