Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 14:35     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:11:11, I have had a similar experience with an OT. She meant well but kept suggesting that new things were wrong with DS, when the doctors didn't find anything. She sent us off to buy these books that are not based in scientific fact and said things like, "When I work on him, I can sometimes sense stories. He's telling me something about basketball. Is there something about basketball in his dad's history? I see something about a white dog." Yes, seriously. I didn't go to you for mind reading...


Look for a sensory-integration OT.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 14:34     Subject: Re:What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:What do you think of Earobics?


Didn't do anything for my child.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 14:04     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
11:11, I have had a similar experience with an OT. She meant well but kept suggesting that new things were wrong with DS, when the doctors didn't find anything. She sent us off to buy these books that are not based in scientific fact and said things like, "When I work on him, I can sometimes sense stories. He's telling me something about basketball. Is there something about basketball in his dad's history? I see something about a white dog." Yes, seriously. I didn't go to you for mind reading...
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 11:11     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
For us, our visit to an OT was worthless. She couldn't identify any problems, and yet recommended a plethora of interventions to solve these "problems" (which were not the problems we went to her for). When I researched the recommended programs, none of them had any support in the scientific literature.

A complete waste of money and time. (Except to know that I am not missing anything there.)
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 11:10     Subject: Re:What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
What do you think of Earobics?
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 11:06     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:Neoprene/snug vest, weighted blanket etc


I read about these weighted vests after a friend told me that DCPS used one on a child without permission -- putting it in as an intervention without ever documenting it on the IEP. There is absolutely no support in the literature for these weighted vests, which are often used with autistic kids who have "sensory problems"
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 21:25     Subject: Re:What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:Concur with PP. We had some nice, competent SLPs but then we found a gifted one. Night and day.


Please share! I could use an SLP! Our SLP is nice and great with DC, but making no progress.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 21:21     Subject: Re:What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:Oral sensitivity tools. DS hated them and I swear they don't work. Countless tear-filled sessions. OTs swore they worked but I don't think so deep down.


+1 we've been using them for years and years with zero results. I finally gave up.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 21:17     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:ABA, sensory-integration OT, risperdal, oral-motor speech therapy, augmentative communication therapy (PECs, followed by DynaVox dynamic display devices, now uses an iPad with Picture WordPower), adaptive gymnastics, and therapeutic horseback riding.


Correction: Now uses an iPad 2 with Proloquo2Go (app).
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 21:08     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:ABA, sensory-integration OT, risperdal, oral-motor speech therapy, augmentative communication therapy (PECs, followed by DynaVox dynamic display devices, now uses an iPad with Picture WordPower), adaptive gymnastics, and therapeutic horseback riding.


I am 18:56. All the above HELPED.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 21:07     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
ABA, sensory-integration OT, risperdal, oral-motor speech therapy, augmentative communication therapy (PECs, followed by DynaVox dynamic display devices, now uses an iPad with Picture WordPower), adaptive gymnastics, and therapeutic horseback riding.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 20:15     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
18:56, did anything help???
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 19:25     Subject: Re:What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
Anonymous wrote:For my non-autistic kid the ABA our dev ped recommended. A total waste of money.


For ABA, OT, and speech therapy (including augmentative communication therapy), the provider is the key. An incompetent provider is a total waste of money. The excellent ones have made a huge difference in my daughter's life.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 18:56     Subject: What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
The Listening Program, DMG, Secretin,floor time, talk speech therapy (vs. oral-motor speech therapy), brushing therapy.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2012 05:38     Subject: Re:What interventions, recommended toys, etc have you found completely useless?
therapeutic gyms?