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

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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.

Yes, because seeing faces is an essential part of treating kids. You being out for ONE WEEK is fine and normal. Prior to covid people got sick, took vacations, etc. All the time. Ask yourself whether child therapists in other parts of the country and world are still wearing masks, and why you don't this bears any relevance to the quality of care you are providing.

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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.

Yes, because seeing faces is an essential part of treating kids. You being out for ONE WEEK is fine and normal. Prior to covid people got sick, took vacations, etc. All the time. Ask yourself whether child therapists in other parts of the country and world are still wearing masks, and why you don't this bears any relevance to the quality of care you are providing.

OK, so I’m notating that your concern for me as a human being is not significant. Thank you that clarifies things.

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You are entirely out of line.

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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.

Yes, because seeing faces is an essential part of treating kids. You being out for ONE WEEK is fine and normal. Prior to covid people got sick, took vacations, etc. All the time. Ask yourself whether child therapists in other parts of the country and world are still wearing masks, and why you don't this bears any relevance to the quality of care you are providing.

OK, so I’m notating that your concern for me as a human being is not significant. Thank you that clarifies things.

I think it's extremely sad that you have been inculcated into believing that wearing a mask (which yes, significantly impairs therapy) is a symbol of "concern for you as a human being." How about concern for the disabled kids?

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You are entirely out of line.

And yet you won't deal with the actual issues, or the fact that this insistence on masking kids, therapists & teachers is an incredibly small bubble here in the DC area (apparently just DC and MoCo as far as I can tell.) I'm sorry, no, it is not out of line to call this out.

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You are entirely out of line.

PP is right. Therapists still requiring masks are doing a disservice to their clients. Even more so when the clients are young kids.

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You need to move to Europe.

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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.

This

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

+1 children should not be masked

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You are entirely out of line.

PP is right. Therapists still requiring masks are doing a disservice to their clients. Even more so when the clients are young kids.

I’ll let my medically fragile patients know.

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You are entirely out of line.

PP is right. Therapists still requiring masks are doing a disservice to their clients. Even more so when the clients are young kids.

I’ll let my medically fragile patients know.

Nobody is saying not to mask if a medically fragile patient wants you to. Curious if you wear masks when socializing with friends and extended family?

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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.

Wow, what? The fact that you say "Wow" as if what I wrote was completely shocking just shows how very, very out of touch and bubbled you are. You realize that kids and teachers *never masked* in Europe? Do you think child therapists everywhere in the US are masking? What's strange and bizarre is making kids with autism, speech delays, hearing impairments, or any other kind of mental health issue, do therapy with their faces & therapists faces covered.

You are entirely out of line.

PP is right. Therapists still requiring masks are doing a disservice to their clients. Even more so when the clients are young kids.

I’ll let my medically fragile patients know.

Nobody is saying not to mask if a medically fragile patient wants you to. Curious if you wear masks when socializing with friends and extended family?

I’m very careful in my personal life so that all of my kiddos are safe. We require masks so no one in the space is compromised. I’ve been in person the entire pandemic minus a few months of spring 2020. Our clinic policies factor in everyone. Anyone who is not comfortable with the policy can find care elsewhere, but most choose to stay.

[Anonymous]

How many of your anxious kids are traumatized and refuse to get in cars because they're required to wear seat belts or sit in car seats?

See how this works?

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Anonymous wrote:How many of your anxious kids are traumatized and refuse to get in cars because they're required to wear seat belts or sit in car seats?

See how this works?

Seat belts don’t inhibit children with speech issues from learning to talk. Seat belts aren’t used as fear porn or to silence and create control. See how this works.