Twins, when one needs support and the other is doing ok, best way to explain to them?

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Hi. I am after some advice about how a parent should explain something. One twin is going to have some sessions with an OT for his Sensory Integration Disorder, and also one to one support at school each morning. The sessions will be during school hours. What is the best way to explain to one twin what is going to happen, and also to the other? I don't want to make it sound too exciting to the one who will be staying at school...or too out-of-the-ordinary to the twin going for his sessions. He is not aware particularly that he has any different need to the rest of the class. Should we describe them as play sessions? And how will the twin left at school view this? We also don't want to give her ideas that her brother has something 'wrong'! I think it would be easier if they were plain siblings not twins...
Anyone? Thanks.

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With my twins I just say we're all different and ds needs to see people just like dd sometimes needs to go to the dr. They both have strengths and weaknesses and we have discussed them when the twins have brought them up. We bring in other friends we know about and ourselves as mum and dad in the discussion. So Mummy is good at cooking but Daddy is good at DIY sort of thing. We've never started the conversation though, we've just been led by the kids. They do seem to have just made sense of a lot of it themselves.

Oh and I found out the other day my dd is having sessions with a TA and another child from her class. Its actually to extend her beyond the classwork but she doesn't know. I used that to say that both need extra help in certain areas to make sure they are doing as well as they possibly could. Which is true and they see it like that, they don't see what you see that one is behind and one is ahead.

I am a twin and dyslexic (and did a lot worse at school than my twin). This however, isn't something I've ever really thought of as an issue. I went off for dyslexia lessons and speech therapy and never thought much of it. So I wouldn't worry too much. Just say he's off his OT. If they ask about it, explain what it is matter of factly. If they sense there's no issue, their won't be one.

One thing I've noticed when talking to other twins about growing up as a twin is a real annoyance at any parents who labelled their twins as the arty one / practical one / pretty one and one and so on. So while each has their strengths and weaknesses, some care needs to be taken in how these are noticed IYSWIM.