When we started Bubs with Occupational Therapy, we had several people comment on our decision. One of the comments we received came by way of a mom of three children. Her suggestion was that we just wait because Bubs might be a late bloomer like her son was. Last night, my husband and I were talking about that exact comment while thinking ...
Visual Perception Breakthrough
We have been doing the Visual Perception Activity every day as suggested by the optometrist. For the past week, I have watched Bubs flip all of the block vertical patterns that I created. On Saturday we made a big break through when he suddenly realized that his pattern was flipped. We all know that realizing is half the battle. I was really ...
Visual Perception Activity
Here are the directions for the visual perception activity that I blogged about a couple of days ago. Live your comments and let us know how it worked for you! ...
I Obeyed!
I just asked Bubs to take a shirt to the laundry room to be washed. He immediately picked it up and said "okay". Then he turned to me with a huge smile and said "I just obeyed, Mommy, right away." Oh those little things! ...
Ways to Serve Parents of Children with Special Needs
Throughout life's challenges, we have had people tell us "give me a call if you need help." I have learned that people either say that to make themselves feel better or they say it because they really don't know what to do. I saw an article in the Focus on the Families magazine "Discovery Years" February 2009 and thought it was something that I ...
Block to Block Direct Match
The optometrist was very kind to sit down with me to give me specific activities to help Bubs with his visual perception problems. The concept that she taught us was "Block to Block" therapy. The purpose is to develop form matching and discrimination using 3-D figures in 1 to 1 correspondence. Basically that means helping Bubs match what I have ...
Seeing 20/20
Today, Bubs and I braved the elements to attend his vision therapy screening. Going into the appointment I didn't know if I should be praying that he has a vision problem or not. See, if the learning difficulties are visual then they can be fix with glasses. Seemed like an easy fix to me. But if the problem is not visual, then we have other ...
Job Praise
I gave Bubs the same job today. He was told after we went outside with me, he would have to do this job. At first he dodged the job, giving excuses. I ended up having to send him to another room. I am very excited to say that about ten minutes afterward, he came back with the job completed. There were a few things that needed redone but over all ...
Memory Obstacle Courses
One of the best activities that we have learned through occupational therapy is Memory Obstacle Courses. There are three reasons that I love these obstacle courses: the kids love them, they expend energy while doing them, and learning occurs. Today we did letters and puzzles with a mini trampoline, pillows to crawl over, and "logs" to jump over. I ...
Turn Down the Volume, Please
We have had CRAZY weather here the past couple of days. What I find interesting about it is that Bubs' volume level has been so high. Everything he says or sings is just at the next level. My tension level has been so high today because of the noise level. I truly believe he doesn't realize that he is that loud. He looks at me with those adorable ...