We live in a small city and so far we've been lucky in that most of the services DS has needed are located closeby. Right now the furtherst we have gone are 40 minutes (each way) for special needs soccer league. And we've traveled about 1 hour to the closest large city for a second opinion appointment for his eyes. We really liked the second opinion doc, so we may take DS to see him more in the future.
I'm willing to travel farther, depending on what the service is and what DS's needs. As he gets older and his needs change, I know that the big city 1 hour away has alot more services & options than our small city, so that's something we keep in mind. Another fator is scheduling. DH and I both work full-time. For occasional events, like appointments with specialists, we can manage to take time off work. Repeating regular events, like ST/OT, would be harder to travel for.
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong