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My son had a total of 4 hours of therapy each week.  He has 2 half hour sessions of speech therapy, 2 one hour sessions of occupational therapy and one hour of ABA therapy.  We spend many hours waiting for him every week.  Add in the travel time (25 minutes to ABA therapy) and our lives revolve around his therapies (and ballet).  

He has had his speech therapist since he was 6 years old.  Kris knows him so well and we have seen such improvement.  Right now, she is fine tuning his communication skills.  She taught him what idioms were.  Use one, and he'll ask what it means and then tell us it's an idiom.  It's very cute.

Liz, his OT, has been with us just bit less than Kris.  She has been away twice for maternity leave.  Those months are a bit hard on him, but he bounces back once Liz returns.  We are more than willing to change our schedules for her.  She really gets the most out of Brother.

Angela has been Brother's ABA therapist for two years now (I think).  ABA stands for Applied Behavioral Analysis.  It's a behavioral approach to therapy.  For the most part, Angela works with him on his social skills where he really needs a lot of help.  It's been wonderful.

It can be difficult to figure out what types of therapies a child may need.  I wish there was a care manager who we could go to with an issue and she'd be able to tell us what type of therapy is needed.