Bubs has had the opportunity to join a social group at therapy. The time worked for us and because interns are leading the group there is no cost! In the social group they set up situations where the children have to learn to share, show good manners, handle tough situations, etc. For example, during the craft time, they will purposely not have ...
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Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:7
Just a Late Bloomer?
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 ...
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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fine Motor Skills
When Bubs was first tested for sensory issues and fine motor delays, he was in the 1st percentile in fine motor skills. Four months later, he was just retested. Very little improvement. We continue to see the visual side scoring the lowest. On Friday Bubs is going to a visual therapist for the 1st of three visit. This first visit will a simple ...
Feeling Led
For the past few days, I have been feeling led to start this blog. Thus, here we go. In the next few days, I will share with you our story. How it all began and where we are now. I will try to explain the emotions of loneliness and stress as we have learned to deal with our out-of-sync life; more importantly, our child with Sensory Processing ...