Guest guest Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Ceil My suggestion to you is to treat this as autism. Prior to the school excepting my child's dual dx, it seemed like we were getting no where. After they admitted to his dx of autism and started teaching him as autistic (visual schedules, choices for rewards, music, music and more music) he has progressed so much in these last few years. I also have my child seeing an outside OT and once I made up a visual schedule for her, she said it was like night and day. He didn't spend the whole time wanting his reward, he understood that he needed to complete all these tasks before getting the reward. school therapist > Hello -I am an occupational therapist who has worked in the special > education field for 20 years. I have treated students with down > syndrome as well as students with autism, and this year for the > first time, I have a darling 6 year old boy with this dual dx. > I have only seen him four times this summer, so I am still learning > about his skills and needs, but I certainly would appreciate any > sugggestions or guidance that may help me, either what parents see > as the most important issues that they want addressed or any > resources that you have found helpful. If any OT's are reading > this, I would be very interested in sharing ideas with you also. > Thank you for any information you can give me. > Ceil > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Checkout our homepage for information, bookmarks, and photos of our kids. Share favorite bookmarks, ideas, and other information by including them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record of the archives for our list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ > -------------------------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 The biggest issue we found was the sensory issues. The more proprioceptive and vestibular stim that you can devise and teach to the parents, the better I think the ability of the child to attend to learning. Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons. > >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: school therapist >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:26:07 -0000 > >Hello -I am an occupational therapist who has worked in the special >education field for 20 years. I have treated students with down >syndrome as well as students with autism, and this year for the >first time, I have a darling 6 year old boy with this dual dx. >I have only seen him four times this summer, so I am still learning >about his skills and needs, but I certainly would appreciate any >sugggestions or guidance that may help me, either what parents see >as the most important issues that they want addressed or any >resources that you have found helpful. If any OT's are reading >this, I would be very interested in sharing ideas with you also. >Thank you for any information you can give me. >Ceil > > > > >-------------------------------------------------- >Checkout our homepage for information, bookmarks, and photos of >our kids. Share favorite bookmarks, ideas, and other information by >including them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record of the >archives for our list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ >-------------------------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 well things OT has had to work on wiht my nathan include fine motor skills, chewing/swallowing skills, they also participate greatly in a sensory integration program for nathan which helps him clam down and actually get some work done. shawna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 ot does the visual schedual stuff? i feel stupid, i thought the teacher was in charge of that from our request in his IEP etc, nathan loves his!!! we even had to change it where he prints it out each day on the computer, the stinker was changing the velcro pictures to prefered activities,lol when the teachers werent looking, he would remove reading and put pe or lunch or break in its spot,lol. shawna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Hi Ceil, Just a quick site to share than I have to head out the door or I would write more: http://www.spdnetwork.org/aboutspd/therapists.html SPD Network Links for Occupational and Physical Therapists If you are an occupational or physical therapist, you may already be familiar with Sensory Processing Disorder. Below are some of the areas on this web site that may be most useful to you. The parents of the 6 y/o boy are lucky to have you working with your client/student. Hope this helps for now. Irma,16,DS/ASD > Hello -I am an occupational therapist who has worked in the special > education field for 20 years. I have treated students with down > syndrome as well as students with autism, and this year for the > first time, I have a darling 6 year old boy with this dual dx. > I have only seen him four times this summer, so I am still learning > about his skills and needs, but I certainly would appreciate any > sugggestions or guidance that may help me, either what parents see > as the most important issues that they want addressed or any > resources that you have found helpful. If any OT's are reading > this, I would be very interested in sharing ideas with you also. > Thank you for any information you can give me. > Ceil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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