How long did your child go to OT?

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Anonymous wrote:Few sessions on and off at a time. Helped to learn to hold a pencil but then it was just practice. I think the OT made up the sensory non-sense.

Made up? How did you allow that then!?

Because our developmental ped we are forced to see insisted on all kinds of therapies like ABA and OT after evaluating our child for 45 minutes. I did each for a few months to try them to see if there was a benefit and I saw none - then I could say we tried it and it was not as helpful as XXX so that is what we are doing. It did help for pencil holding and a few things but the OT would do all kinds of lame activities vs. focusing on what I asked her to do. He was a nice guy and my kid enjoyed going. Sometimes you have no option if you want to get the services paid for you want. Now, a few years later, still same concerns I expressed but the ones the developmental ped and OT claimed sure enough are all gone.

Well lucky you. It doesn't always work that way.

Yes, lucky us. My child has to endure pointless developmental peds. appointments to get therapies forced on him, so he cannot participate in fun things or have a typical life all just to get therapy he did need.

We go to developmental pediatricians, and therapies, and my kid still participates in fun things. These things weren't inflicted upon your kid; you arranged and took him to the appointments. It sounds like you need therapy for your attitude.

Your comments make no sense.

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We did OT for about 4 months for our sensory seeker son when he started preschool and was having "sensory seeking" issues in school (read: grabbing and hurting other kids nonstop). It was a total waste. No change in 4 months. He just played with heavy impact things for an hour. But he wasn't overstimulated in the OT session like he was in school, so nothing that they were doing translated into any positive behavior is school. And I'd read a ton of people here and elsewhere who said that OT for sensory seeking behavior doesn't do anything. And getting to the appointment once a week was insanely stressful - I had to bail early from work, get my son at school, drive across town at 3:30pm with all the crazy afterschool traffic. Not worth the stress. The OT also flagged a bunch of other things like bad pencil grip (never worked on it with them, fixed itself at an age appropriate time a few months later); can't play with toys outside their designed usage (started doing that at age appropriate time a few months later), blah blah. My son is slightly better now on the sensory stuff, but it's clearly just from aging a bit.

I am generally highly skeptical of all these therapies. Everyone claims their kids were miraculously better -- 6 months, a year, 4 years later. But how much of that is just because they got older? I hope your kids behaviors improve with age -- because they're kids and they all get better with age.