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. Began treatment with a writing activity that involved Luke creating his own Pokeman character. He had to pick different parts to make a whole Pokeman and was very engaged in this activity because of his interest in this subject. He created a character and used this character as a page in his book he is working on in OT. He also wanted to survey his peers as to which power of a Pokeman is their favorite. We continue to work on and discuss our Zones of Regulation, expected versus unexpected behaviors and problem size matching reaction size. Luke understands all these concepts. Steady progress is being made.
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. Luke was seen at start of session outside for heavy work play before table top tasks. He participated well in both pickle ball and ping pong. We continued in Luke's room with writing activities to work on refined fine motor and visual motor skills. Luke's writing is showing improvement but he continues to need help with some formations, line placement and sizing. He continues to make steady gains in all areas addressed.
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. Last session before Spring Break week and Richard asked to do work outside. We began therapy on mat doing mat exercises geared to integrate the ATNR reflex using MRNI techniques. Richard participated well and enjoyed the outdoor time. We continued with chalk play to review all learned letters in cursive. Lastly, we joined peer and another teacher to play a game of Bocci ball. Richard enjoyed the time with peer and interacted well. He also demonstrated great sportsmandship.
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. Began session with ocular motor work via Ann Arbor tracking program and hanging ball game. Richard was able to track words inside a jumbled word paragraph and is showing steady progress with increased speed and improved accuracy. We continued playing a game in which a ball was hung in his room that he was required to poke it with his index finger back and forth to his OT. While poking back and forth he had to say the alphabet with each touch of the ball. The timing and sequence of the letters was slightly difficult for him but with more practice this should be easier to achieve. This brings the visual system and cognitive systems together in synergy as they both work together to be successful with this activity. Lastly, worked on cursive handwriting by reviewing and practicing previous learned letters. Good session.
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. Began with Ann Arbor Tracking Program to work on
and improve visual saccades and tracking. For his first trial, Richard was asked to track seven words from a sentence in a jumbled word paragraph. It took him 32 seconds to track seven words with one verbal cue because he skipped one word and had to go back to find it. For the second trial it took Richard 34 seconds to track 10 words in a jumbled word paragraph independently. Next we worked on following directions and listening skills. OT gave direction at a medium speed but Richard was 0/3 in following a 2-step direction correctly. Reviewed all previously learned cursive and introduced him to the letter "f" in cursive.
Assignment
Continue to work on following multiple step directions
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. Luke was seen in his room for therapy session. Previous teacher reported that he was having a "hard" day. In OT, Luke continued with drawing, coloring and writing in his book "It's Raining Pikachu". He asked the OT to draw the Pikachues for the cover and he colored them. Today Luke was getting up and down while working and had a hard time staying on task for completion. He was talking a lot about football and was excited for the Art Show. He asked to play ping pong but OT said first he had to write in order to play. In the end he wrote minimally and did not earn Ping Pong time.
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. Began today session with kinetic sand play for sensory input via the tactile system. Seemed calming and organizing for Luke. Continued to work on "whole body listening". Luke was able to follow a two-step direction but needed the second direction repeated 4/5 times. Next, we discussed self regulation and used an Emotions Worksheet which had facial expressions of different emotions. We talked about different students and different times when they were feeling certain ways and Luke was able to chose the appropriate emotion. He also talked about how he felt during different times/situations. Lastly, we worked on handwriting by creating a book per Luke's request. He wrote the title today and illustrated the first page. The book is called "It's Raining Pokeman". Productive session.
Given Pierce's enthusiasm for mathematics, I thought he might enjoy learning about pi on "Pi Day."We watched a brief "Brain Pop" video and discussed the derivation of this irregular number. Given the writing prompt, "Write a letter to your favorite teacher," Pierce outlined, wrote and edited a letter to his math teacher, Mr. Grassman.
