Today DS4's physio told me there is a chair currently in the equipment storage place that would be perfect for DS4 (10 months). It's this one. I agree that it would be really good for DS4 and was already imagining him being able to join in more with his brothers and see more of what's going on than he can from lying on the floor or in his tumbleform chair.
Problem is, DS4 needs a social care OT to get this chair which he hasn't got and the waiting list is 3-6 months for under 2's. And there's no guarantee this chair will be available when he gets an OT appointment. I think DS2 still has an OT who sorted out his seating for school and who I think is a better OT than the one DS4 has been referred to, who when she was DS2's OT, dithered around for months and kept offering us a bath seat which we didn't want. DS2's OT actually asked him what he wanted and tried to accommodate him when he said he didn't want a chair that looked like a highchair at school.
So can I ask DS2's OT to get DS4 this chair or do we have to wait and see the other OT. I really feel that time is not on our side with DS4 at the moment as I'm trying desperately to minimize his potential learning difficulties while his hydrocephalus gets worse and his physical development delay causes him to miss out on more things. Although I appreciate that the other parents on the waiting list must be frustrated too.
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