Luke was seen in his room for a 45-minute occupational therapy treatment session. Focus of treatment was on improving his bilateral integration/hand usage, fine motor development, graphomotor skills, postural control and sensory processing/organization for improved general performance in various environments. Upon arrival Luke was non-complaint with most presented tasks. Luke was seen in his room for today's session. Provided Luke with vestibular input on spooner board as we went fishing for sight words. Luke enjoys moving and learning and was able to stay on task with fair to good success for reading his sight words. Continued in his room working at table on impulse control and turn taking with "Connect Four" travel game and the 5-second rule game. He is getting better at turn taking and waiting his turn but continues to struggle with having his opponent get points and definitely has a difficult time if he thinks he is losing or is going to lose. Lastly, met with Luke's mother go over his standardized test results on the BOT and progress over the school year. We discussed what he has to work on moving forward in regard to occupational therapy treatment.
Richard was seen in his room for a 45-minute treatment session. His session focuses on improving his postural control, integration of retained reflexes, visual motor skills and integration, fine motor skills, dexterity, manipulation, ocular motor development and graphomotor development/keyboarding as an alternative means to written communication. Richard was seen outside and in his room for his treatment session today. He is getting excited for the end of the school year. Today we worked outside on ocular motor skills and graphomotor development. Luke was able to track and hit a wiffle ball with a bat 3/5 times during today sessions. We continued outside using chalk on the cement to practice writing Richard's first and last name in cursive. Richard needed min-mod auditory cues to write his first name and wrote it several times. OT provided with a visual demo and example to copy to write his last name in script. Richard appears proud that he is able to write in cursive; however, needs more practice to make this a functional form of written communication. I hope he continues to practice writing in script this summer and in the future. Great session.
Wow!!! Absolutely amazing and special to spend time with Katya, Vlad and Yogi today as we caught up on life and tried to come up with a plan and course of study for Katya to pursue for college. Katya has learned that the New School and living in NYC is not for her. She thinks she would like to live at home and not on a campus. We evaluated programs at several schools and looked at courses of study from architecture, sociology, psychology to criminal justice. Katya is interested in a wide variety of possible professions - from dental assistant to skin care. It seems that FAU doesn't have the kind of programs that interest Katya, but Palm Beach State College may be a good place to start. They have a Linked In Learning Program. LinkedIn Learning links to its students, faculty and staff. You'll have access to over 16,000 courses from real-world experts and that's pretty exciting! LinkedIn Learning lets you learn at your own pace. You can select courses relevant to your areas of study and even pursue other passions. Once you're in, browse around! Take a course, learn something new and apply it in your day-to-day. I recommend that Katya take some time to peruse the website and its link for LinkedIn Learning: https://www.palmbeachstate.edu/LinkedInLearning/ to get some ideas about courses of study and areas of interest. Katya once thought that art or psychology would be of interest to her - but she doesn't currently feel this way. Perhaps taking a course or two through PBSC would lead to discovering new things about self and the world that will lead Katya to a fulfilling field of study. I'm happy to continue to work with Katya and help her to explore her options.
Richard was participating in an art contest with Mr. Marcus. Richard worked very hard on illustrating Pokemon characters and coloring them using colored pencils.
Session Minutes
30
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
I was a substitute for Dr. Pat with Richard from 9:00-9:30am because Matthew arrived late.