Are therapists doing unmasked therapy for kids with anxiety about covid stuff yet?

[Anonymous]

It’s therapist dependent. We require and wear masks with all clients. You’ll have to ask each one independently, it’s impossible to know otherwise.

[Anonymous]

It makes me really, really sad that special needs therapists around here are still masking themselves and their patients. I mean come on, really. This is absurd, fear-based, behavior by a medical professional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s therapist dependent. We require and wear masks with all clients. You’ll have to ask each one independently, it’s impossible to know otherwise.

So there is no requirement (any longer) where you operate that medical professionals and offices wear masks?

[Anonymous]

OP: Wow, some of you are awful jerks. I kind of expect DCUM to be just parent-shaming awfulness, but I had hoped for more from parents with SN kids. Silly of me.

[Anonymous]

*should have read "OP here:"

[Anonymous]

The therapist my kid sees is still requiring masks for in-person appointments. They'll also still do virtual appointments as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP: Wow, some of you are awful jerks. I kind of expect DCUM to be just parent-shaming awfulness, but I had hoped for more from parents with SN kids. Silly of me.

Sorry if we’re not all convinced that OP’s self-diagnosis of her daughter’s increased anxiety is so clearly mask-related. OP ought to be raising the issue with actual professionals, not looking for an echo chamber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s therapist dependent. We require and wear masks with all clients. You’ll have to ask each one independently, it’s impossible to know otherwise.

So there is no requirement (any longer) where you operate that medical professionals and offices wear masks?

It depends on the office. Our requires it. We will not treat you unmasked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes me really, really sad that special needs therapists around here are still masking themselves and their patients. I mean come on, really. This is absurd, fear-based, behavior by a medical professional.

Speaking only for myself, i’ve managed to not get Covid this entire time. I’d prefer not to get it in session, because I can’t work with any patients until we’ll again. Schedules are tight enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP: Wow, some of you are awful jerks. I kind of expect DCUM to be just parent-shaming awfulness, but I had hoped for more from parents with SN kids. Silly of me.

Sorry if we’re not all convinced that OP’s self-diagnosis of her daughter’s increased anxiety is so clearly mask-related. OP ought to be raising the issue with actual professionals, not looking for an echo chamber.

This (and that) is (was) OP:
You don't need to be convinced. I came looking to see if pediatric therapists were still required to mask. That appears to be something that varies by therapist and by location, and so I have my answer.

I hope you find some peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP: Wow, some of you are awful jerks. I kind of expect DCUM to be just parent-shaming awfulness, but I had hoped for more from parents with SN kids. Silly of me.

Sorry if we’re not all convinced that OP’s self-diagnosis of her daughter’s increased anxiety is so clearly mask-related. OP ought to be raising the issue with actual professionals, not looking for an echo chamber.

This (and that) is (was) OP:
You don't need to be convinced. I came looking to see if pediatric therapists were still required to mask. That appears to be something that varies by therapist and by location, and so I have my answer.

I hope you find some peace.

I hope you do too, and that you work on your own anxieties and prejudices and not necessarily true presumptions as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes me really, really sad that special needs therapists around here are still masking themselves and their patients. I mean come on, really. This is absurd, fear-based, behavior by a medical professional.

Speaking only for myself, i’ve managed to not get Covid this entire time. I’d prefer not to get it in session, because I can’t work with any patients until we’ll again. Schedules are tight enough.

You'd be sick for one week. And you're likely going to get covid anyway. So to avoid that, you're going to significantly impair your therepeutic relationship, for what, forever? And don't claim that it doesn't. Especially if you work with kids with autism, masks absolutely interfere with emotion recognition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP: Wow, some of you are awful jerks. I kind of expect DCUM to be just parent-shaming awfulness, but I had hoped for more from parents with SN kids. Silly of me.

Sorry if we’re not all convinced that OP’s self-diagnosis of her daughter’s increased anxiety is so clearly mask-related. OP ought to be raising the issue with actual professionals, not looking for an echo chamber.

This (and that) is (was) OP:
You don't need to be convinced. I came looking to see if pediatric therapists were still required to mask. That appears to be something that varies by therapist and by location, and so I have my answer.

I hope you find some peace.

I hope you do too, and that you work on your own anxieties and prejudices and not necessarily true presumptions as well.

OP wants a therapist who won't require masks. No doubt like therapists are ALREADY DOING in 90% of the US, and 100% abroad. In Europe they never even masked small kids. That's why I think this mask culture is really, really sad. It's not a health and safety measure; it's a strange clinging to a safety blanket that is actually interfering with therapy and teaching. Yet in some social circles, professionals (who are supposed to be supporting kids) are too uniformed, or risk adverse, or conformist, to see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes me really, really sad that special needs therapists around here are still masking themselves and their patients. I mean come on, really. This is absurd, fear-based, behavior by a medical professional.

Speaking only for myself, i’ve managed to not get Covid this entire time. I’d prefer not to get it in session, because I can’t work with any patients until we’ll again. Schedules are tight enough.

You'd be sick for one week. And you're likely going to get covid anyway. So to avoid that, you're going to significantly impair your therepeutic relationship, for what, forever? And don't claim that it doesn't. Especially if you work with kids with autism, masks absolutely interfere with emotion recognition.

So when we need to postpone your next appointment for several weeks because I had to bump folks that’s nbd? Because that’s another thing that happens when I’m out a week or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes me really, really sad that special needs therapists around here are still masking themselves and their patients. I mean come on, really. This is absurd, fear-based, behavior by a medical professional.

Speaking only for myself, i’ve managed to not get Covid this entire time. I’d prefer not to get it in session, because I can’t work with any patients until we’ll again. Schedules are tight enough.

You'd be sick for one week. And you're likely going to get covid anyway. So to avoid that, you're going to significantly impair your therepeutic relationship, for what, forever? And don't claim that it doesn't. Especially if you work with kids with autism, masks absolutely interfere with emotion recognition.

Wow.