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I see an adult LPC that works with children on the spectrum. She evaluated my 3 yearold daughter and would be able to do some work with her especially regarding ADD, but am unsure how Aspie she may be at this point. Was or is the child therapy skills helpful to you and your children?

Our insurance doesn't include therapy of that nature and we couldn't afford every week for I don't know how long. Seeking advice here...

We didn't know our son was AS at that age and, so, did not engage in any sort of therapy. We did, however, discover that he needed help with transitions and enacted an elaborate warning system; that he had sensory issues; and needed more consistency and structure than is natural to me (hiring the right nanny part time helped with that). Basically, paying attention to him and backing into what he needed was key.

What would be included in the therapy that is proposed for your child?

She has sensitivity to pain, light and noise too. We are doing our best with tranisitioning. Havn't talked more with the therapist what her plan would include as the only thing she had time to say is she would like to work with staying on task.
I'll post more when I know more and talk with my husband again.

As an aside, thank god I live in Australia where EVERYTHING is covered by free medical.

A couple of months ago I had a heart attack. The ambulance, the hospital, the operation, the tests, the after care rehabilitation and the dozen or so pills I have to take every day. All free.

Is she seeng an occupational therapist, or someone else familiar with sensory integration? If your child is in preschool, you could get this through the school (but it's usually a hard fight). An OT may be able to help with the sensory issues. I am not sure whether your therapist could do that, but maybe she too has some suggestions.

Yeah I think OT would be good for her, but we have awful insurance that just gets us through. I do have a relative that is a physical therapist that could give me some help. I am looking at making some weighted blankets and such for her and maybe myself. There is a woman offering her ebook on ebay about how to make these products cheap in comparison to retail. I wrote her and she seems quite nice and knowledgable so if anyone is looking check out material.

She said it is a total of 72 pages to print. Am thinking of trying it as it couldn't hurt.

I suppose it is a mixed blessing I had to diagnose myself by using books and the internet, because now I don't take no for an answer very quick. I'll keep on asking, praying and looking for what my baby needs as I do not want her to grow up as I did not knowing or even able to find others that understood what it is like being spectrum in an NT world.

Havn't talked more with my hubby as he is going through a very busy time with meetings and other work demands. I've been with him and his add long enough to know when he needs down time and when he is ready to talk :/

I am going to go out on a limb and form an opinion. I am not opposed to sensory integration therapy to the extent you can get it covered. Some people swear by it, so I would go for it as long as you aren't breaking the bank to come by it. But I will also share what my son's doctor had to say about it when it was first mentioned by a psychologist, when my son was about 4 1/2: unecessary. The pediatrician felt there was nothing in the therapy that an attentive parent tuning into their child isn't going to figure out on their own, and he felt that I was such an attentive, tuned in parent. Now, over the years I have to say that I've come to agree in part, but there are also small things that it would have been nice to know about sooner, and a therapist would have given us that. How much would that all have been worth? No way to know.