What therapy works for your child?

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We just moved to a new city. I have 2 Aspies ages 10 and 6 (in addition to myself). The oldest is very mild and the youngest is not quite as mild. I am unable to homeschool them as I was doing for this year and have found a wonderful school for them. I am now in a remarkable situation to be able to do something with myself and am lost. I am so used to being mom, teacher, therapist, ... that I feel unused. I would love to go to school and learn a profession that would not only help pay the bills but would be helpful to my family and others. Since we were never able to afford proper therapy for the kids, I am not sure what field of therapy would be most beneficial to an aspie. I have been winging it myself all these years. So what do you think? What do you parents find the most beneficial for your kids? I appreciate your feedback and look forward to your comments. Glad to be back.

Speech and OT have been beneficial.

Same as above, speech and OT. If I have to pick among those, I would say that I've seen the most results from speech, because speech is the area that covers semantics, social interaction, and all that. OT has become more about accommodations and assistive technology for us because they never were able to "fix" my son's motor skills issues.

I fully expected to get some OT responses, but I didn't expect to get speech therapy. I agree that OT has become more modifications rather than assistance in some cases. I love the idea of doing something with pet therapy as well. I thought maybe speech and therapy dogs would be a good combo. I have my daughter teaching the dog his addition and subtraction and it is doing very well. The animals are non accusing or critical. It would be a less stresssful way of practicing interactions and proper language.

I have to agree, speech is very helpful - the "speech" that is covered at my son's school is pragmatics and social skills, which is really what these kids probably need the most. We also need OT for him to help with fine motor, but I don't necessarily think that's going to "fix" the issues for my son, but it might help him function a little better when it comes to writing...even just printing. No matter how much he can use a computer and type out his work, for math you still have to write out the numbers. Those are the two things that I think really help. There are a lot of experimental type things out there....but we're not interested in any of that to be honest. I just want to help my son function and deal a little better.

thanks so much for the input. I think I will shadow a speech therapist soon before I enroll in school. I love the idea that I can learn to not only help my own kids, but myself and others in turn. Thanks again for all the input