Private Therapy

J began attending private speech and occupational therapy in October of 2006 twice a week. Her progress was first measured in November  of 2006.

Her long term occupational therapy goals were:

•  Improve motor performance and neurosensory processing to increase independence with school, play/leisure, and self-help skills
• Improve fine motor/visual motor skills to improve independence with self-care and pre-academic skills
• Improve gross motor skills and coordination
• Improve sensory processing to maintain appropriate energy level; improve attention and participation during tasks; and improve sensory input responses

Short term OT goals were:

• Consistently be able to independently take off shorts and shirt
• Use scissors to snip edges of paper with minimal assistance
• Throw a ball forward 3 feet using an underhand throw
• Imitate drawing a vertical line
• Kick a ball forward 6 feet using opposing arm and leg movements by extending leg back with knee bent

She was able to meet one goal of being able to throw a ball at a target.

Her long term speech therapy goals were:

• Improve functional performance in school, play/leisure, and self-help skills
• Improve expressive language skills to effectively express wants and needs
• Improve receptive language skills in order to be able to follow directions

Short term speech goals were:

• Express "more" and "all done" verbally by using a manual sign or pointing to a picture
• Follow simple one-step directions without physical and verbal cues
• Point to and label age appropriate vocabulary items
• Correctly follow a 4-5 step picture schedule during sessions
• Correctly imitate various consonant-vowel patterns with 80% accuracy

She was able to partially meet a goal of imitating animal, environment and simple consonant sounds during play.

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