{"id":13705,"date":"2016-01-04T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/new\/?p=13705"},"modified":"2016-01-04T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:32:17","slug":"goals-reducing-ot-and-pt-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/goals-reducing-ot-and-pt-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals: REDUCING OT AND PT GOALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Goals%3A%20REDUCING%20OT%20AND%20PT%20GOALS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Andrea:\u00a0 My child is almost 12, has CP, autism and developmental delays and is in a Special Day Class all day. The IEP team wants to reduce his PT and OT both from 1 1\/2 hrs per week to consult only. He cannot stand or walk, but is able to get around in his wheelchair with the help of his aide, so they say he \u201ccan access his education.\u201d He can read and spell at about 1st or 2nd grade level, but comprehension is lacking, and he can barely write legibly, though he can type with index fingers. They say he met his OT goals and that anything OT would address is already worked on in the classroom, so services would be redundant. Surely there must be appropriate OT goals, but how can I find ones to suggest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea:\u00a0 My child is almost 12, has CP, autism and developmental delays and is in a Special Day Class all day. The IEP team wants to reduce his PT and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/goals-reducing-ot-and-pt-goals\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1357],"class_list":["post-13705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-g"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13706,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions\/13706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}