Progress Report #3

Program Director/ Coach Notes:
We are continuing to see progress in Kate!  She has increased in levels in many of the areas since the last progress report.  We are excited by her increase in Optokinetics.  She also has improved greatly in proprioception.  We are so proud of Kate for continuing to push herself in her core exercises.  Her hard work has paid off!  Her balance and cross crawls have also improved greatly.  We are pleased with the changes we are seeing in Kate.  She has become even more flexible and is happy to have multiple coaches working with her.

Cognitive Coach Notes:
Kate is fun to have in the cognitive room.  She has made progress in her social skills.  She comes in and is willing to work even if she is tired.  She is doing really well in aal her reading comprehension.  The cognitive coach rarely has to hep her with a word.  She does ask questions when she has them.  As she talks about her question, most of the time she figures is out herself.  I would like to see her write more sentences.  However, she does respond with at least one sentence on any topic she is given.  She spells many words correctly; others she does phonetically-which is great because she is working independently.  Kate's math skills are also improving.  Other students talking does not distract her as much as it used to.  Initially Kate talked "off the subject" a lot.  Now when she has a story to tell, she asks if she can tell it when she is done with her assignments.  She is also accepting of different cognitive coaches--which is huge for Kate.

Here are a few activities that she moved up levels:

Optokinetics: from level 6 to 7 (The optokinetic reflex is a combination of a saccade and smooth pursuit eye movements. It is seen as you follow a moving object with your eyes, which then moves out of the field of vision at which point your eye moves back to the position it was in when it first saw the object. wiki)

PRNG- from level 5 to 7, this is when she is on the tire swing and they spin her around, she is getting less dizzy and after they stop her, her eyes are coming to a stop quicker than they used to.

Supine Core- from level 3 to 6!! she can hold the bridge position longer now

Prone Core- from level 5 to 6  this is where she is laying on her stomach and lifts her arms and legs up

Lateral Core- level 4 to 5

Gait and Aerobics -from level 6 to 7  cross crawls

So she is really getting strong.  She is getting closer to age level on all her core exercises.  She is still at level 3 for small motor skills, so that is one area that we need to work on more.  We also need to keep doing metronome to work on her timing.  And still stand on left leg, but now the goal is 60 seconds instead of 30.  I remember when it was hard for her to do it for 5 seconds!

So it was a great progress report!  It got me motivated again.  We have a new exercise routine, again.  Some of the primitives we need to do at least 5 times a day to get them to integrate faster.  So far she is too tired to do them 5 times.  Her neck gets sore from doing the exercises so we have to do less of those.  All in all, she is doing really well!