The process of therapy is like other processes. How long does it take to get an education? Was every day of 4th grade important and helpful to you? Therapy is building something so has to progress but sometimes it is hard to see the specific steps. Repetition is important, just like doing homework in school and doing the same types of math problems over and over for a week or more. But the important leaps of how addition and subtraction (first and second grade) become multiplication and division (third and four grade) and how all that ties into fractions. . . could you have understood/explained that before it happened? Can you really find words to explain it now?

Perhaps a little simpler way of thinking of it: how long does it take a baby to learn to walk? You know crawling and getting those arms and legs coordinated and strong and working together is important and then there is pulling one's self up and standing and getting strong enough legs to support one's weight and learning balance and then trying to walk and falling often on that nice thick diapered bottom At first one thinks it takes a few days or a week for a baby to learn to walk until you realize that a baby is learning to walk from birth to about age three where we still call him a "toddler".