Simon Should I assume that she continued to go?
My wife, who has close experience of maybe 100 neuro kids now, is just as knowledgable about the range of ways that they develop over the years as compared with someone who has had a stroke but little help. In particular, her ability to assess suitable therapies and reasons why some things need to be done are in excess of us stroke thrivers especially at the start. The reason? She has seen it from many different perspectives over the decades, and through many pairs of eyes, and each over a few years. The one thing she doesn’t deal with is CPSP, for that is dealt with elsewhere, and seems to happen much more rarelywith kids than with adults.
Another reason that we need good therapists is the warped logic that many early stroke thrivers have. It is linked in to disinhibition, in that the brain certainly does not behave as it did before the stroke, but it gradually heals. In my experience, I started out being rude to people and occasionally suggestive, which then developed into saying some stuff that I regretted but then felt the need to apologise for (this was mainly to my wife; her reponse was that she was waiting for this moment to arise, showing that the earlier phase was beginning to end), and then to being just about in full control again.
So my conclusion is that one can smell out those who really know, and they are not always stroke thrivers. Each person ought to be judged by their own merits.