This seems to have been a week where M has demonstrated his mastery of skills learned and his increasing confidence in his own abilities. Lots of consolidation has taken place.
M has enjoyed using the skills learnt on his futurelearn science course to plot a graph showing the weight of his bantam eggs over time. It has been nice to see him easily generalising a skill independently without adult prompting as historically this has been a real area of difficulty for him. It was also useful revision of an important maths topic.
He enjoyed visiting a Church craft fete at the weekend with friends and is getting quite confident about money, change and the social skills needed for a purchase. So confident in fact that, he intends to do the shopping for the roast dinner he plans to cook unassisted for myself and his Gran. This is a new target he has set himself to accomplish and demonstrates his improvement in his motor skills. This week he learned how to make the roast potatoes and the yorkshire puddings towards his self-directed goal.
On Monday we had the second of three planned NHS OT appointments with our new PCT. It was great to see him enthusiastically engaging with the therapist and chatting away as they assessed him. I was excited too, on learning that they have ordered him a new weighted blanket as his recent growth spurt means the one a friend helped me make a couple of years ago has been outgrown. We agreed the safest thing to do is to put his mattress on the floor for the time being as he has been breaking his bed slats on a regular basis in his sleep and I had been getting concerned about the potential safety implications. he enjoyed showing off his improved fine motor skills through drawing & colouring tasks for the therapist. We also discussed how to desensitise him so that I can take him to the GP to get a stubborn verruca on his foot looked at in a month or so. (Time is needed to work through the desensitisation programme so that the doctor can examine his feet without it causing a major melt down). It was a very productive appointment and I came away feeling confident that we have the tools needed to help him continue to make good progress as he grows.
He is enjoying his Flat Stanley audio books and discussing the story lines at present and they are an ideal way to spend time when it is too wet and rainy to go out. We got a new gym mat this week to use instead of a rug in the living room so that we can bring some of his therapy activities indoors for the winter as the grass outside is too sodden for effective floor work. It will be time to pull out the wii balance board soon for the same purpose. When the weather is fine I am keen for him to get out in the fresh air of the field with his dogs and continue to learn to ride his bike. However he has broken one of the stabilisers on his bike. His weight means sessions are shorter now as I can only support him for so long. I need to source some sturdier stabilsers as soon as I can so we do not lose momentum.
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