The Beginning

Hello fellow classmates. Treating autism has always been very interesting to me.
When my sister and I were of elementary school age, we saw a TV special about a boy with autism. We were very impressed. Since my sister went on to be an accountant and I am a physical therapist, I guess I was more impressed than she was!
My career path led me to treating adults and it wasn't until I had my son that I became interested in working with children. But it still took me a number of years and having an autistic boy walk into the outpatient clinic I was working in at that time, until I remembered that TV special. Then I realized that I wanted to work with autistic children. But do you know of many school aged children getting PT? If so, then you are in a good place. The first thing autistic children get is ST and OT. So for the couple of years I spent in a different school system than I am in now and I did not have one child with autism or even autistic type behaviors.
Then I got lucky and started working in Roxbury. I first started to get things like..."so and so is falling off the chair. And I can't get him to sit up at circle time..." That's my way in and along with test trunk control, I test their ball skills which are usually lacking. The school district I work in has a great staff (Kevin is among them) and they recognize when a child may need PT.
I will leave you with just this small introduction as I lead you down the path of Complementary Alternative Medicine. I will specifically tell you more about that TV special I saw as a little girl.