As many of our clients already know, we focus our therapy on using evidenced-based, neurological programs during intensive therapy that make changes efficiently and effectively. This means that our clients come often for "boot camp" to do programs such as Interactive Metronome, The Sensory Learning Program and or therapies 3-4 times a week for short periods of time. This sounds like alot and it is. The parents work hard, the kids work hard and so do the therapists. But it is days like yesterday that make it all worth it.

We have a young man who was first tested in December of 2009, just 3 months ago. His scores were very low in areas of Visual perception, motor planning ... everything related to mild Autism Spectrum Disorders. He has wonderful parents who have devoted their time and efforts to making learning easier for him and the payoff is showing!

We re tested him last week using another test so as to maintain validity and he has shown an improvement of ONE FULL standard deviation in visual perceptual skills! And it is showing in everything he does. The teacher has made comments at school like " he is more organized, getting his tools together before going to lunch , whereas before everything was haphazard". His handwriting is improving and he has commented that it is easier (we have not worked on any handwriting!).

I can go on and on, there are improvements daily both from mom, the teacher and the child. Whenever I doubt myself or the process, I just need one little guy like this to remind me that what we do here is nothing short of amazing. That the team of therapists participating in this process are wonderful and the parents who hand their children over to us are trusting that this is the right thing to do. But when I put my head down at night, my thoughts are mostly about my little people who sacrifice their afternoons to come play with us, whose lives we are influencing and who I hope will look back one day and say " gee I can't remember what that crazy lady's name was , she had a funny accent and made me do silly things, but we had alot of fun together and even though I spent alot of time at therapy, look where I am today!".

This is when I cry happy tears because we became therapists in order to change lives and that is what we do during intensive therapy programs. For that, I am grateful!