One big change caused by moving is therapy placements. Early Intervention, the state program that assigns us a coordinator to help us locate and employ therapists for Parker, is broken into regions. Usually, therapists only travel to specific regions and have very packed schedules, thus prompting our need to change therapists now that we are living in a new location.
This is always a stressful process for us. Luckily, it isn’t so bad for Parker, as he seems to be happy to be around anyone right now, and isn’t showing much preference to specific people. Being Parker’s advocate requires me to only accept therapists that are a good match for him—both in personality, how they handle him, how they interact with our family, and the tasks they push him to accomplish.
Twice since we have started therapy, we opted to change therapists—and for me, that is an especially difficult thing to do. I hate knowing that I hurt someone’s feelings or made them uncomfortable. But the bottom line is that I am here to make sure Parker gets what he needs and deserves. Thankfully, we have a coordinator that actually conveys the decisions to the therapists!
My hope is that with our new round of therapists, we can get a good, hardworking, and collaborative team together to help him progress. We have already seen our OT, and she seems great! We start DT next week, and are still waiting for Speech and PT. Here’s to hoping for a strong team right out of the gate!
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