In her journal, Kaitlin wrote her spelling words in sentences. We discussed Romeo and Juliet that she is doing for her English class. We read some of Animal Farm and discussed the comparison to our government.
Chris read The Brave Little Toaster and discussed it. We talked about science fiction.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Chris did fairly well concentrating, responding, and answering questions. I told him that if he can focus for the instruction part each day, he can have a break at the end of class or write on his script.
Kaitlin prepared her dictionary that we will use for spelling words. She added ensconced, benevolent, confinements, and dissentients. We read Animal Farm and discussed our current government.
Luke seen in room for 45-minute treatment session. Focus of treatment on improving and strengthening his emotional intelligence/self-regulation, improved attention/participation in both preferred and non-preferred task, bilateral coordination, refinement of visual motor skills/graphomotor development, fine motor precision, and sensory processing. OT came to session with a printed schedule with boxes to check as tasks were completed in an attempt to gain increased task compliance. Started session and will continue to start sessions "How Do I Feel Today? Check In. He was asked to circle the word that best describes how you feel. Luke answered "happy". He was then asked to explain why he was feeling this way. He said "I am just happy". Continued session outside with an obstacle course involving movements that require bilateral coordination as as other gross motor play. Luke refused to do jumping jacks today in obstacle and wanted to choose exactly the activities to get from beginning to end of the course. His design involved a lot of jumping and homolateral movements versus contralateral and bilatereal movements. OT will continue to encourage bilateral and contralateral play during future sessions. Lastly, worked at table on graspmotor and visual motor skills. Good session.
Luke was seen for a 45-minute Occupational Therapy treatment session in his room today. Focus of treatment was on establishing rapport since haven't seen one another for a couple months, strengthening his emotional intelligence/self-regulation, improving his attention/participation in both preferred and non-preferred tasks, improving bilateral coordination, refining visual motor skills/graphomotor development, fine motor precision and sensory processing. Luke seemed happy today and seemed glad to be back in school. He wanted to sit on OT's lap during tabletop activities and needed to be repeatedly redirected to sit in his own chair. When OT was reintroducing the Zones of Regulation Luke said "Not this again". He reviewed some previously learned letters today and was able to form 4/5 of the letters correctly. He did reverse the letter "d" as a "b". He wrote a note to a peer across the hall to further practice graphomotor development. Good to be back working with Luke.
