As a teacher I have many students in OT, and they generally have good results for s short time after their OT appointment. In my students these results diminish rapidly after a short time window until the undesired behavior returns (or the next appointment is scheduled). So, is anybody seeing lasting effects from OT for sensory issues that persists after OT ends?
I'm not sure if you're asking if the positive effects don't last until the next OT appointment, or if they diminish with time after the prescribed course of OT is completed.
I can't give you any advice that's directly relevant to your dd's situation, but I've had two of my children go through OT - one for handwriting and fine motor skills and one for sensory. I didn't see *immediate* results with either child (as in, they wouldn't come home from a single appointment with an immediately obvious positive benefit - instead they usually came home from appointments with assignments for us to work on that related to the therapy. The one exception to that is when my dd started listening therapy (through her sensory OT) - and that produced a completely immediate change in my dd. The other changes happened much more gradually, but both my ds and my dd benefited from their OT and neither regressed after the therapy had ended. I'm trying to think through the set of other children I know who've been through OT, and I can't really think of any kids (just out of the set I know) who lost the gains they made through therapy after their treatment was completed.
I especially appreciate having sent my dd through sensory OT - it not only helped calm her down quite a bit, it also gave us a great set of tools to use in future situations when she faced new types of sensory overload or when she was stressed out - and I've used those techniques with *all* of my kids, not just dd
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