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OMG, I am so frustrated. Ds, age 4, had an OT eval for fine motor delays and possible sensory issues. This place was terrible. The lady sits him at a little table with me, barely talks to him, it was so quiet you could hear your ears ringing in this room.
So, she's sifting through a book, and I am not joking, I felt like she was someone they took out of the office like a secretary, to fill in for the real OT, or something. She just didn't seem to have a clue what she was doing , or how to do an eval. She does all the tests, writing tests, mostly, and scissors. My ds loves his scissors, and knows how to cut pretty well, actually, and she gives him these crappy metal scissors that are all loose and there was NO way he could cut with them. I told her it was the scissors, so she looks around and takes out these special scissors, hard to describe, like a big loop, and he could actually use them quite well! She later wrote on the report that he had difficulty cutting on a straight line. BS!
The whole experience was awful, I felt like she totally mis-evaluated him, and I personally think he has visual processing issues, NOT fine motor. He has trouble copying a shape, yet if he sees you draw it he can copy then. He has trouble following a pattern of blocks, but he has no problem stacking many blocks, things like that. The whole eval. just made him seem so much more delayed than he is.
Not to mention, when we were in the waiting room, a mom was sitting out there while her son was back getting therapy. I could hear the therapist YELLING at him. Yep, yelling. Telling him, "NO, get OUT of the balls"! Just horrible. I asked her if parents weren't allowed back while doing therapy, and she said they can go, but the therapists highly recommend against it after the 1st few times.
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: Um, no way, not my kid, thank you. So, after listening to the therapist yelling at her son for awhile, she goes back there.
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Looks like we will definately be going elsewhere. Sigh. Oh well, the next place we are going to try is *slightly* closer to home, too, and I'm just hoping it will be a better experience.
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Does anyone have any good links on visual processing disorders at all? I just don't think his issues are so much fine motor as some sort of visual processing, or hand eye disturbance. But what do I know, I'm *just* his mom, right?
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: (That's the way they made me feel)
So, she's sifting through a book, and I am not joking, I felt like she was someone they took out of the office like a secretary, to fill in for the real OT, or something. She just didn't seem to have a clue what she was doing , or how to do an eval. She does all the tests, writing tests, mostly, and scissors. My ds loves his scissors, and knows how to cut pretty well, actually, and she gives him these crappy metal scissors that are all loose and there was NO way he could cut with them. I told her it was the scissors, so she looks around and takes out these special scissors, hard to describe, like a big loop, and he could actually use them quite well! She later wrote on the report that he had difficulty cutting on a straight line. BS!
The whole experience was awful, I felt like she totally mis-evaluated him, and I personally think he has visual processing issues, NOT fine motor. He has trouble copying a shape, yet if he sees you draw it he can copy then. He has trouble following a pattern of blocks, but he has no problem stacking many blocks, things like that. The whole eval. just made him seem so much more delayed than he is.
Not to mention, when we were in the waiting room, a mom was sitting out there while her son was back getting therapy. I could hear the therapist YELLING at him. Yep, yelling. Telling him, "NO, get OUT of the balls"! Just horrible. I asked her if parents weren't allowed back while doing therapy, and she said they can go, but the therapists highly recommend against it after the 1st few times.
Looks like we will definately be going elsewhere. Sigh. Oh well, the next place we are going to try is *slightly* closer to home, too, and I'm just hoping it will be a better experience.
Does anyone have any good links on visual processing disorders at all? I just don't think his issues are so much fine motor as some sort of visual processing, or hand eye disturbance. But what do I know, I'm *just* his mom, right?
