Had a wonderful long and interesting post all typed in. Ds (2) came and deleted it by wapping on my keyboard with whatever was in his hand. (I was seeing red at the time, so didn't note WHAT it was he was banging with.) Sigh.
So, here's my perspective: therapists should save us all time, effort and money by training the majority of the parents to do the therapies with their own children. The therapist should be a guide, helping the parents determine what needs to be done and when that would be best to do. In my (limited) experience this is pretty much what we were doing, anyway. Did the once a week visits with the speech therapist REALLY train my Ds? Or was it the daily interaction with me? What about the other Ds who had sensory issues? Was it the consults with the OT that made the difference? Or was it the way that we applied what the OT trained us to do?
I know this would not work all of the time across the board, but I do believe that for the majority of families, most of the time, this would be very effective. There would be times where consults with the therapist would have to be stepped up, but for most of us, most of the time, having periodic check in's would be a better use of time vs. packing children up several times a week/month and dragging them hither and yon.
I stated it better in the first post, but I think you can get the idea from this one.
