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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also resent how people constantly respond to these EI evals as "it might help, and there's zero cost, so why wouldn't you?"  Because in our case, i worked, and my husband traveled and incorporating therapies into our schedule is stressful for everyone involved. Stressful for my son and for me, because we're rushing in our day to squeeze it in.  Like a lot of SN families, even ignoring therapies, we already feel like we constantly have appointments on our schedule - there's always a ped, dev ped, ENT, dentist appointment.  If i add once/tiwce a week therapies to that, holy shit, my life gets crazy stressful.  My son's stress level goes up, and that makes his issues intensify.

So of course i'm going to give my son needed therapies.  But i'm only going to sign up to the extent they have the potential to help. Example: After an OT eval recommended it, we did OT for 2 months. Like so many on here found, it was a load of shit and we gave it up quickly when we figured out it wasn't going to do anything. My dev ped suggested behavioral therapy for my 3 year old, and i called around to therapists and had several of them tell me that it would be a waste of time at that age.  Point is that some therapies are recommended are just aren't necessary or helpful.

So i always resent that this site suggests that taking up therapy is "zero cost".  There are costs for some of us, and it's important that we weigh those costs against potential benefits.  [/quote]

Agreed. The nice thing about EI though is that since it's a coaching model, they'll go to your kid's daycare or work with the nanny. They'll also reduce the amount of services if you're only available once or twice a month, to keep giving strategies and monitoring progress. The whole point of EI is to support the family-that's why they help with stuff beyond your kid's direct issues. Once you get out of EI it's not like that, which is why I think so many people say to go for it at that stage.[/quote]

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