How is it possible that its already the 15th of January??? I put a few more blogs out last week giving some examples of things that Dominic has been doing (for baseliney stuff) and wanted to share a few more before updating you on the week.
Late last year, Dominic started going with Daddy and a colleague of his to a climbing gym, where they "rock climb" up the walls. Its a great full body, motor planning, sensory, all around therapeutic activity for him that he can do while he plays. Here are a few videos of him doing that climbing in late November.
This second one is really cool because you can see him troubleshooting and figuring out where to put his feet.
Also in the realm of getting to know his body, he does things like Jumping Jacks and walking like an elephant for OT. Both of these videos are from January 9.
I will post comparisons in a month or two to see how we're doing.
This week:
Tutoring update: One of the lessons in the language program that Rachel is running with Dominic has him describing an item by telling us 4 things about it. She did that with him in tutoring on Monday and then I let Speech Therapy know he could do 4 (they were only doing 2). I've since gotten him to generalize that skill daily. Last nights was particularly humorous, it went like this:
Dominic randomly Proclaimed "POOP"
So I asked him to tell me 4 things about Poop. After getting mad at me, and with cues, he produced the following:
- Poop comes from dogs
- Its green (????)
- its Stinky
- Dogs poop on grass
When we saw our long term OT, Jonny, yesterday, Jonny had watched the full hour of brain bridge/tutoring and wants badly to observe sometime. We will try to coordinate that soon. What Jonny is noticing is HUGE GROWTH in independence (Dominic played a whole game of uno with no cues, even telling Jonny when it was Jonny's turn), eye contact, and he's blown away.
Dominic has started doing swim class at school for PE. This is new this week and he's SUPER excited about it. Sadly the SPED department had to fight for him to have the opportunity to take the class (i was on standby in case they needed me to get involved) which frustrates me a lot. I'm glad he's in there and I hope that deep pressure in the mornings from the water will help him stay pretty balanced during the day. As a Result of being in Chlorine daily again, he's now getting an IonCleanse footbath every day too. I wasn't going to do it yesterday because our day went School / home for half an hour of chores / Drive to OT / Go to Costco / home around 615 for dinner... but he inhaled his dinner and actually asked me for a a footbath. Well to be honest he said "Mommy Feet? Ipad?? - which is his way of asking for a footbath.
Coming next week - a homeopathy followup and likely new prescription.
Late last year, Dominic started going with Daddy and a colleague of his to a climbing gym, where they "rock climb" up the walls. Its a great full body, motor planning, sensory, all around therapeutic activity for him that he can do while he plays. Here are a few videos of him doing that climbing in late November.
This second one is really cool because you can see him troubleshooting and figuring out where to put his feet.
Also in the realm of getting to know his body, he does things like Jumping Jacks and walking like an elephant for OT. Both of these videos are from January 9.
I will post comparisons in a month or two to see how we're doing.
This week:
Tutoring update: One of the lessons in the language program that Rachel is running with Dominic has him describing an item by telling us 4 things about it. She did that with him in tutoring on Monday and then I let Speech Therapy know he could do 4 (they were only doing 2). I've since gotten him to generalize that skill daily. Last nights was particularly humorous, it went like this:
Dominic randomly Proclaimed "POOP"
So I asked him to tell me 4 things about Poop. After getting mad at me, and with cues, he produced the following:
- Poop comes from dogs
- Its green (????)
- its Stinky
- Dogs poop on grass
When we saw our long term OT, Jonny, yesterday, Jonny had watched the full hour of brain bridge/tutoring and wants badly to observe sometime. We will try to coordinate that soon. What Jonny is noticing is HUGE GROWTH in independence (Dominic played a whole game of uno with no cues, even telling Jonny when it was Jonny's turn), eye contact, and he's blown away.
Dominic has started doing swim class at school for PE. This is new this week and he's SUPER excited about it. Sadly the SPED department had to fight for him to have the opportunity to take the class (i was on standby in case they needed me to get involved) which frustrates me a lot. I'm glad he's in there and I hope that deep pressure in the mornings from the water will help him stay pretty balanced during the day. As a Result of being in Chlorine daily again, he's now getting an IonCleanse footbath every day too. I wasn't going to do it yesterday because our day went School / home for half an hour of chores / Drive to OT / Go to Costco / home around 615 for dinner... but he inhaled his dinner and actually asked me for a a footbath. Well to be honest he said "Mommy Feet? Ipad?? - which is his way of asking for a footbath.
Coming next week - a homeopathy followup and likely new prescription.
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