Therapy. Monday. Interpreting the schedule for you as well as myself

We have made official contact with Stepping Stones and we have a schedule.

The first month is the assessment month. This is where people actually spend a month worth of work hours doing something with our child. This ‘something’ is generally ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) related, and for the first month others will be figuring out what Tristan needs in the way of ABA. We will find out if it means what we think it does, because everything is very “new job-esque” right now and I feel like I don’t know shit. Anyway, people shall come into our home and get to know Tristan and hopefully not be scary.

People? Five therapists and and a supervisor are listed on the schedule as putting in some 17.5 hours per business week. Most of those hours are in our home. We will also have to attend meetings, whereby I have no idea what we will do with Tristan if there’s not some sort of kid accomodation.

All righty. So, our days of therapy shall be sort of like this for the next month (until 6/4), with a holiday in there somewhere:

Monday: 10:15-1:30
Tuesday: 12-3
Wednesday: 9:30-1:45
Thursday: 12-3
Friday: 9:30-12:30

There seem to be minor variations per week, as well. I don’t feel like figuring them out now, as they’re all the same idea with maybe 15-30 minutes of difference.

Anyway, it’s been arranged for Tristan to keep going to playgroup, but he’s not going to have a lot of time to himself anymore. I hope for his sake that he doesn’t require intensive therapy to continue at this rate for so long unless either he needs it THAT desperately or he enjoys it. I’m going to start having to make park playdates at very concise times, but that even takes just about every moment that anyone I enjoy seeing is available.

I also don’t know how much of my participation is written into this yet. Of course the PLAN will receive my participation, but I’m not sure which parts of the program are parent- optional, required, or disallowed.

So, I suppose this post is more of “Tristan starts in-home preschool this Monday.”

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