Weekly Update -- 29 March - 4 April 2010

Yay, I'm 169 weeks old today!

Masinja had a pretty good week. At OT we had to sit on the slide in the play area because there weren't any rooms left. His therapist had him work with some easy pegs this week instead of the blocks or Duplos. He kept building on top of her structure instead of copying it like he was supposed to :o) She also had him work on drawing vertical lines by having him draw from one dot to another. He did really well considering!

During Speech Masinja read a book with his therapist. He has gotten much better as far as his attention span is concerned. He also worked on separating the boy and girl cards into piles again. His therapist wants to work with Masinja on pretend play so she introduced a house play set. She gave Masinja two men, a table and chairs, two babies and a double high chair, plates, an oven, cupcakes and pizza. She helped Masinja set everything up and pretend to cook the pizza and cupcakes and have the men eat it. He did a really great job considering he hasn't really been interested in pretend play up until now. He was mostly interested in playing with the boy and girl twin babies and putting them in and taking them out of their double high chair. It was great to see him pretending!! His lack of interest in this type of play has made it very hard to play with him. Hopefully he will continue to engage in this type of play.

Masinja had his 32nd ECI Session this week. His teacher brought the adaptable spoon that the OT sent to help Masinja become more proficient at feeding himself. It is a regular spoon that has a hinge built in and if he tries to turn it upside down it swivels back to the upright position. Hopefully this will help him understand how to hold the spoon correctly. Masinja's is going to schedule a visit for the vision consultant. The remainder of the session was spent discussing ways to help Masinja communicate better with the use of a picture schedule. Masinja's teacher gave us pictures depicting various routines throughout the day. Hopefully this will hep him to process things better as well as be more flexible.

That's all for now.

Peace,
T.M.M.