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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone I know who has been sent to an OT (for a variety of reasons- sometimes as simple as because the kid was premature so it is standard to go to an OT) has had an eval of doom and gloom. We had one, but no particular diagnosis, told that there were no global issues etc. some of the stuff "disappeared" between the eval and the first therapy session. Like, in his eval at age 34 months, they indicated he had fine motor skills of an 18 months old because he used the fist grip in the five seconds he held a pencil during the eval. Two weeks later when they say him in a classroom, that had miraculously gone away and he was using a developmentally appropriate grip.

I fee like most functioning adults would have weirdo issues that could be flagged on an OT eval. Like yeah my writing grip is lousy. And I'm not good at creativity but I see things very geometrically. Just to pick dumb examples. It doesn't mean I ned therapy. Not to say OT won't help some people, or that they don't need it.

Go see the dev ped to confirm nothing is up, but my impression of the OT eval is that for most kids, these are issues that would go away enough that they'll be fine in kindergarten -- a cutoff that I had a child developmental psychiatrist told me was not chosen arbitrarily 200 years ago, but was chosen because lots of kids are all over the place prior to that, but by 5, they're mostly all at the same place. [/quote]

yeah, some of the stuff I have to think about and be like whoa. I can't eat with chopsticks, at all, and I was a terrible, and I mean terrible athlete and a generally clumsy kid, so some of it could just be inherited. And my child was indeed premature, so there is of course that. We also got the hold the pencil with the fist thing. I have never heard of anyone going to an OT and them being like "No issues here! Move along!" so there is also that!  I am waiting for the dev ped apt to really get a sense of what is going on and what our plan should be.[/quote]

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