We have a 9 hour road trip in June. I trying to set aside the toys she like that are good for the car to make them exciting again byt the time we are on our way. I am targeting one activity per hour. So, I am trying to come up with 18 total activities.
So far I have:
1. Homemade number book with dot stickers
2. Button Snake
3. Aquadoodle Travel
4. Pipe cleaner magnet bottle
5. Look and find Kai-Lan Book
6. Sew 'N Sew
7. Puzzle Flashcards
8. Balloon filled with flour to squeeze
9. Books
10. Glow sticks for after dark
11. Edible necklaces - Cheerios, pretzels, etc
12. Magna-Doodle
13. Coloring Books - Crayons and Markers
14. CDs for sing along time
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18.
We will have our iPad as well. We will drive 4-5 hours each day and I theorize we will watch one movie on each leg. I just don't want the TV on the whole trip.
Do you have more ideas for us? Please share!!
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Words, Signs and Apraxia
We have been taking sign language for a few months and are about to start an intermediate course. We are getting more comfortable having a basic conversation in ASL. C has been doing an awesome job doing signs with her approximations since about December. Signing with her attempts at verbalizing gives her more motor memory to work from when trying to say it again. Apraxia is all about repetition and building motor memory helps. So, signing has been great. Her sign vocabulary keeps growing. When I tried to make a list of sign she uses regularly for school last week it was over 30 signs.
We took the little one out with some people from our ASL class, our deaf teacher, her family and friends. There were 4 little girls signing. It was so interesting to watch them share crayons and request colors with sign. If feel like we saw it click for her that some people talk with just signs. Since she had only seen signing with talking previously I think this is the first time she really understood it was a language on it's own.
The moment I e-mailed the list to school she stopped using her signs as often. Her private speech therapist thinks it is great that she is signing less. She is still producing good approximations without the sign. This means her brain is telling her mouth what to do on it's own, without additional motor help.
We took the little one out with some people from our ASL class, our deaf teacher, her family and friends. There were 4 little girls signing. It was so interesting to watch them share crayons and request colors with sign. If feel like we saw it click for her that some people talk with just signs. Since she had only seen signing with talking previously I think this is the first time she really understood it was a language on it's own.
The moment I e-mailed the list to school she stopped using her signs as often. Her private speech therapist thinks it is great that she is signing less. She is still producing good approximations without the sign. This means her brain is telling her mouth what to do on it's own, without additional motor help.
So, we will keep learning more signs and she will keep outgrowing them. I'll keep you posted.
nom nom nom
One of our favorite OT exercises involves a hungry puppet, little craft balls, and a pair of tongs. The puppet tells us how hungry he is and asks for his favorite color snack (usually green or brown). Then the little one has to pick up the ball with the tongs and feed it to him. Our puppet hates pink ones and spits them back out, sometimes across the room. So, depending on the color she feeds him she will get a different response. We usually do this activity with 15-20 balls and she feeds all of them to him.
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