Week 6 - Continued...

ST went really well today.

Zach was doing good with his sounds and instead of Ms. Kristin having to simplify his words he was doing it for her - for example she grabbed a "duck" out of the box and told Zach "This is a duck. You say duck." Zach grabbed it out of her hand and said "du" Just yesterday Ms. Kristin was the one simplifying the word.

They also played a game with different animal magnets - he would grab one and she would tell him what it was and he had to attempt to say either its name or the sound it would make before he could move on. When he was all done he had to hand them back to her and tell her again either the name or the sound - he needed much help with this! It kind of went like this; he has a pig, Ms Kristin tells him "O" (because he can't say pig or oink) he gets the "O" sound out, he gets to put it in the box, he then grabs another animal and Ms Kristin says "what is that?" he says "O" --- in other words he was stuck and his brain couldn't switch gears - she would tell him what it was or a sound and then he could do it but the next one he would hand her he would always tell her it was the animal from right before. Zach does a lot of getting stuck.

The other thing I noticed today was more issues with his motor planning. Today when our session was done Zach (as always) had to help clean up, but today he wanted to throw the toys in the box as he was trying to do this his arm would be bent like he was going to throw and it would take a couple small arm movements before his brain was allowing him to let his arm finish the movement and allow his had to release the toy. I could see the frustration on his face - it really does break my heart! I will be bring this up to Ms. Jerry-Anne this afternoon at OT.