Update Regarding “An Email To The New SLP”

I wanted to give an update about my interactions with Daniel’s SLP. You can read about that here An Email To The New SLP. I waited “patiently” to hear from her, while waiting for her response I received an email from Daniel’s new OT who suggested almost verbatim what the SLP had to me. She wanted to change his routine AND use the reward system. I nearly lost it. I took a deep breath and calmly emailed her practically the same email only explaining to her what had happened that morning before their session. Prior to their session Daniel had set his owl timer — it is a cooking timer that is extremely loud it scares him and everyone else in the house, but he will not part with it — He had forgotten that he set it the timer went off and terrified him. We spent time recovering from the loud, blood curdling sound for about 20 min. before the session, but it was too much for him.

She was new, and she was asking him to do things he had never done before.

Needless to say, he was not as cooperative in session as he had been last week. Keep in mind last week was a “get to know you” session. I was so upset that both of these women expected Daniel to come to sessions doing new things, with a new person, at new times, when we just got back from winter break, without any issues. He needs to be transitioned and not punished for not knowing what, how, or why he is supposed to do things. It sent me into a spiral of frustration and tears. I started to get swept away into thinking negative thoughts because I felt as if I was at the mercy of these people. So instead of falling into that trap for long, I decided that I would look into local options.

I am in the works of finding local therapists through our school district.

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