Summer did really well for Wednesday’s visit with her OT. They made the card together. Opening those wavy blade scissors was tricky because they are stiff but she does really well with squeezing them closed on her own. The colouring was done independently. The printing was hand-over-hand but Ann felt like I was on a Ouija Board because the way Summer was moving her had felt like she knows the letter formation for some of the letters in the words we printed on the card.
Ann said Summer was very funny when she was with her in the play room: Summer kept pretending to sneeze and then would apologize for her “terrible sneezes”.
Ann noticed that she seems to be moving her right arm faster when she is reaching, throwing overhand, bouncing the slinky up and down or swinging the slinky like a skipping rope.
Ann had Summer open her hands wide and then “Give me 10” with our hands in the air and she was able to get her right fingers extended well.
When grasping Summer is able to get her hand open and around objects such as the chicks in the eggs. She tends to use her middle ring and little fingers more than the index finger: it tends to hyper-extend at the first knuckle where the finger joins the hand and then she flexes at the joints within the finger.
When trying to pick up small items Summer was able to use the tip of her thumb against the side of the tip of her middle finger although it was inconsistent – at other times the timing of getting the fingers and thumb closed was off with the fingers closing faster than the thumb.
When trying to turn the noise maker tube up and down she still tends to tilt her whole body instead of pronating her hand fully or internally rotating her arm but she is not leaning as far and with cuing she will try to move the tube without using her body. Yesterday she used her left hand to help turn the tube to assist with pronation and supination.
Summer operated the See’n’Say pulling the hand with reasonable speed and she was able to easily release the lever. She was also able to quickly rest her hand on the turning arrow in the centre to make the taking stop – she would stop it and then release it repeatedly with good speed and control.
Jody told us that Summer was able to fit 10 pegs into the foam peg board on her own and was able to stack 8 blocks (with help to support the top block each time she went to put a new block on) the previous week she was having trouble lifting her hand off the top block when we got to 5 block – she would know the top block off as she went to release it.
She didn’t say “I don’t know about this” for any of the tasks today.
This morning while we were getting ready to go to school Summer said to me: “We’re a great family!” - I guess I have to agree :-) This kid keeps us smiling.
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