Opposites

Today Bob had occupational therapy, group occupational therapy, speech therapy, and physical therapy. A busy day.

During physical therapy Bob practiced walking with the one-sided walker. This time he did it with the help of just one therapist. When I saw him last Thursday, he was being helped by two therapists. Bob also practiced walking up and down steps. These steps are shorter than most, just six inches tall. Dan is doing most of the work with the steps at this point.

Caitlin, the speech therapist, practiced saying opposites with Bob today. They did this in a sing-songy voice. Bob did well repeating the words, some examples are "up and down", "boy and girl", "all and none", "stop and go". He did all of these well except the last one. Bob said "top" instead of "stop". Caitlin said this is the same kind of mistake toddlers make when when they are learning how to speak. The therapist did not play the tiles game with Bob, she assigned that task to my mom. She will do three words a day during the week and ten on the weekends.

My son and I visited today and we brought a present, a tangram puzzle game. They proved too hard (even for this math teacher) but Bob played it by copying the solutions to create the shapes from the book. Bob did play two more cards from the traffic game and found them to be very easy despite the fact the cards were for intermediate boards.

My mom took Bob for a walk outside to take advantage of the warm weather. They spent about twenty minutes taking in the fresh air. Bob enjoyed the ducks swimming along the Charles river.

Today is Bob's third week anniversary at Spaulding. He has progressed well and we are looking foreword to the next three weeks there. Thanks for reading and keep the positive thoughts and prayers coming.