Re: OT-Anyone else with twins?

August 14, 2001

Could you do a home program? We had to get legal help to get the program

that was most appropriate for our daughter. She gets 15 hours per week of

1:1 ABA at home. During that time her younger sister is included in

" circle " time for socialization. She also gets 2 hours per week of OT in a

clinic...I take her. Again, they include her sister and both girls love it!

We pay for 1 hour/week of speech therapy and she gets three 30min. speech

sessions through the school district....I stay with her for that. We also

enrolled her in a community based pre-school we liked...ours happens to be

Christian but many parents love Montessori. Anyway she gets a 1:1 shadow

aid for the 9 hours per week of school. We hired the aids so feel much more

comfortable sending her to school. Well, I take her and pick her up.

I wouldn't recommend waiting...the best results happen with early

intervention. Good luck! I relate to not wanting to send your child to

school. Many people on this list homeschool...they'll have good resources

for you too.

H, mommy to 3 1/2 yrs, PDD; and 2 yrs, NT

OT-Anyone else with twins?

> I have 2 3/4 year old twins and face sending one to special preschool

soon.

> Because they won't be 3 until November I was going to hold off and send

them

> next year so I don't have a school for my NT twin. I have such anxiety it

> gives me a stomach ache about sending my PDD-NOS son off to school earlier

> than I had planned and forcing him to seperate from me as well as his

> brother. If no one can help, does anyone know of a website that deals

with

> non food related but special needs or autism issues so I don't take up too

> much list space? Thanks, I feel naseus just writing about school in

November.

>

> Thanks, Helene

>

August 14, 2001

Helene,

I don't know if I will be of much help, but I have twins (boy/girl), and my

son (PDD-NOS) just started a PPCD class this week. My twins just turned

3yrs old at the end of July. Neither of them have been in daycare ever,

I've been home with them since they were born. I am going to put my

daughter in a part-time daycare in Sept. I think she needs to be around

kids who are also NT. It wasn't so hard on either of them this week (I'm

holding up pretty good, too), as my son has been in the ECI program (they

came to our house) for about 1-1/2 yrs, 4 therapist a week, plus the college

students that I use for respite kept the whole house busy. But, I always

explained that they/we were teaching her brother how to talk (she chose to

go into a lot of the therapies, too). What little kid could resist all

those toys these people lugged in day after day ) Anyway, I think that

helped her this week as her brother started school...I just kept explaining

that this new school was for the new teachers to teach her " bubba " how to

talk. She seems to be " getting it " . I am spending as much time with her as

I can for the rest of the month because I definitely think she needs some

" just mommy and daughter time. " She was thrilled that just she and mommy

got to go to " wally world " (Wal-Mart), as she calls it, today. Just the two

of us. I have started to prepare her for when she gets to go to daycare

(calling it school for her) in September, so she will have that experience,

too. I know it's tough thinking about they won't be going at the same time

to the same class....but I choose to have hope that the PPCD class will help

my son to recover along with all the other interventions that we are doing

(GF/CF diet, ABA, chelation - going great by the way), and that maybe next

year, we won't be facing this. Write me off list if you would like to.

Just wanted you to know, I think I understand what you are feeling. Hang in

there.

Elsie (in TX)