My son has been with an OT for 2 months now. He goes twice a week. I'm not getting very much feedback and I'm really frustrated. She says I can email her, but she never emails back. Or she'll say she'll email me some info. but I never hear from her. At the end of each session, I get to talk with her for about 5 minutes and it's so hard to get information out of her. She seems frustrated with me.

She was out of town for 2 weeks and we had another OT fill in. She was amazing. I learned more from her in 2 weeks than all the time with our regular OT. I'm so confused about what to do. Should we find another OT? My son loves her, but my connection with her is awkward. I am still so new to this and I'm trying to understand it and do what I can to help my son, but I need someone to explain it to me and I just feel our OT is not doing that.

Any suggestions?

Also, I was reading that a good OT would not push things too fast. An example: last week she used this balloon that you blow up and let go and it fly's across the room and makes a loud whistling sound. My son (whose 3 1/2) freaked out. The next time we saw her for his next appointment he asked her (almost in tears) if they could not do the balloon today. She tried it again and he freaked out. Her explanation to me was that he needs to be exposed to things that may startle him. Those weren't her exact words, but close. I understand the idea is to gradually get him used to unexpected things/noises, but I just felt it was too quick after his first freak out. Am I overreacting?

Ugh, I'm just so frustrated. Like I said, this is all new to us. We just got diagnosed in June and I feel like I have no support. I'm so glad to have found this site!

I appreciate any feedback you could give me.