Our little boy four years old also went through a period that I thought OT was making things worse but he came out the other end better. It was like be was adjusting to things and suddenly he got it in order and has moved on.

(03-07-2012, 03:27 PM)Lexicon Wrote: My almost-four-year-old son started OT a month ago and he seems to be doing much worse. In fact, right before he started I nearly canceled all together because he was doing so well. I thought we'd turned a corner and maybe he really had outgrown his meltdowns and inflexibility.

I've talked with his OT about it and she is taking things very slowly with him so we can get the best possible sense of what might be setting him off. She also said it could be a side effect of the brain reorganizing itself as he learns to process the things he does in therapy. The day after his first therapy session was maybe his worst day at preschool ever (and he has had some doozies!). Things are not improving and his daycare has asked us to come in for a meeting. He hadn't hit or been overly physical with another kid in class since well before Christmas and in the last two weeks he's had incidents every day.

Is this something any of you have experienced with your kids? Was it due to something that was being done in therapy that needed to be managed differently or was it just an adjustment thing that settled down with time? How long was it before you noticed OT making a positive difference for your child?

I've heard good things about Montessori Schools being a good option for non-traditional classroom time, not as structured, less formal, less students. Maybe that could be an alternative if you can't home school. We were looking into one for our daughter when she was 4, but as she wasn't potty trained at the time, it wasn't an option.