Yay, I'm 168 weeks old today!
Masinja had a pretty average week. At OT he did several different activities that centered on fine motor skills. Instead of stringing beads, this week he put them on dowels. His therapist made several patterns with the beads that Masinja had to copy. He struggled a bit at first because he just wanted to put as many beads on the dowel as he could, but after a few tries he got the hang of it. Masinja also had to copy patterns with the Duplos. His therapist made towers and he was supposed to make his look the same. He has been having a hard time with this for a few weeks now. He tends to do the exact opposite, i.e. if the order of the blocks in the tower is red, blue, green he tends to build his green, blue, red. Masinja also practiced drawing lines. He's gotten pretty good at horizontal lines but he just can't seem to figure out how to draw vertical ones. He got to finish up by eating some applesauce. He's been struggling with using a spoon but he's starting to get the hang of it!
During Speech Masinja worked with the boy and girl cards by separating them into piles. He stills get confused on a few of them but he's doing a pretty good job; I'd say about 85-90% correct. He also worked with the vocabulary cards and did more gross motor imitation. His therapist rewards him with bubbles and he gets the biggest kick out of them. Every time she blows a whole bunch he says, "Look at all these bubbles!!!" He then proceeds to watch each of them pop before he will do any more imitations :o)
I attended a Parent Connections training this week on Behavior Strategies. The school psychologist that evaluation Masinja a few weeks back was the presenter. She gave us a lot of good information about the correct way to discipline as well some strategies to correct behavior problems. It was a very good workshop and it certainly gave me a lot to think about!
That's all for now.
Peace,
T.M.M.
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