boomerang wrote:Well... I guess I don't know. "Life skills", I suppose. Adaptive behavior.
I told her that our family physician had referred us and that is why I had made the appointment, that finding him the help he needs is all I'm after. We talked for a long time.
She just thinks that he needs a "multi-pronged" approach and wants him to go to "the clinic" which consists of a pediatrician and a psychologist and which may or may not include OT or other forms of therapy. She just didn't feel that OT alone could help him and that we first have to determine what the underlying neurological, physiological, or psychological problems before OT would even know where to start.
I've said before that Mo isn't an easy child. I haven't really delved publically too much into how uneasy he can be (for both himself and others) because he deserves some privacy. He's complicated.
But to have a professional at an incredibly well respected children's hospital say "he's too complicated for me" is kind of a heartbreak.
Yeah, but if she's an OT working without support of a mental health specialist team, that makes sense.....don't see it as a Big Black Mark.
Unlike Beth, I have found most OT's to be pretty timid re kids with the problems Mo has.
And, it may be helpful.
If it's done the way it is here it's no big drama.
Just a few interviews and psychological testing (which most kiddy psychs know how to make fun) and mebbe a scan.....and perhaps he'll get into that OT gym!
That's pretty cool...cos he ought to get pictures or graphs of his brain!!!! They want to find all about Mo's brain, to see if there's stuff they can do to help him train it better (some brains are like great, high-spirited horses....they tend to be a bit harder to settle, but man, once they do...wow!!! You may observe here that there's lots of ways to talk to kids about such processes. They KNOW they are struggling.)
Then the team get together to discuss Mo, and you guys get feedback.
