I also respectfully submit a different interpretation of your students' experience that may warrant considering. Rather than believing OT only provided a short-term relief, I would interpret that relief as demonstratating that those OT activities could help -- and that the OT activities needed to be repeated. I never broached OT as something we did once a week; when I did during times of acute stress, like a move, I felt like a failure. I always had understood that I was learning what activities I needed to do on a regular, on-going basis to help my children. And doing that, incorporating swinging and trampoline, etc., into our daily lives helped my children immensely.
ITA and think this point is worth re-posting!
Sweetie, thanks for mentioning the benefits of swimming for your ds - it's got me thinking it might be beneficial in the same way for my super-sensory, always-active, always talkative dd10. FWIW, dance lessons are another place where, although she's not got the all-enveloping sensory impact, she's for some reason very very focused.
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