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Hi Allison! We have been in a similar situation with my daughter. She goes to occupational and physical therapies regularly. We have experienced so many of the same benefits and challenges from the slower pace. She is in occupational therapy for vision & sensory processing, and physical therapy for low muscle tone. Vision wise, her progress has plateaued. However, with so much less hurry in our day, her sensory struggles have been soooo much less and that has been the biggest blessing! On the physical therapy side, it’s been pretty easy to implement those sorts of exercises into our day and I’ve actually found that she handles them a lot better because she’s not being forced to pack it into a 30 minute session.
I guess my biggest takeaway is to keep our schedule as flexible as possible as everything reopens. That way, when I can tell we’re needing to slow down for her sensory needs, we can. Also I have considered moving her therapies to every other week, staggered. As far as our therapy experience goes, the therapists simply suggested doing once a week (actually, they both suggested doing twice a week!) so the frequency is completely up to us. Just like their education, we’re in the driver’s seat of their schedule. If we see benefit from having a slower day to day AND utilizing therapies, I think we can have both!
