How long has your child been in OT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
PP, if your kid was just a "late bloomer" why were you consulting "several scientists and psychologists?" Why are you posting here at all if your kid was a "late bloomer" and not special needs? Something fishy in Denmark.


In response to this - you cannot tell that your DC is a late bloomer until they have bloomed. Our preschool had an OT come in to test kids and she told us DC badly needed OT. ... I did not even know what that meant, so I researched it by talking to various contacts I have in psychology, research science, teaching, and a number of parents of older children who had been through OT. We decided (much like the PP M.D.) that the test our DC had received to assess the OT needs had never been scientifically validated, that no evidence supported OT working for a DC in our child's position, and all the anecdotal information from parents who had "been there, done that" was that they honestly did not know whether the OT had any effect at all .... or if their DCs had just matured into better motor skills. So you see - this is not "fishy." --- This is what we do when someone suggests a course of treatment for our DCs that will be expensive, a strain on limited resources of time and money, etc.

Then you also don't know if it was the OT or a matter of time.

Here's a database you can search on the evidence:
http://www.otevidence.info/EBP_page.asp?pageid=15