June 28, 2008

PBMT - Day 201

Adrian had his 3rd ST session at Caritas this morning. Again, there's not much improvement on Adrian's weak mouth muscles (poor oral motor skills) since the last session in May. This session didn't run very smoothly as well because Adrian wasn't cooperating at all! He cried and just hated when the therapist was trying to put her hands around his mouth. The therapist utilized a couple of exercises/toys such as balls, bubbles & fishing game to encourage Adrian to utter some words associated with the games. Adrian enjoyed the games but he wasn't willing to say the words. He'd get mad everytime we were withholding the toys unless we heard him say it. In conclusion, the therapist found that Adrian doesn't quite know how to use his lips to pronounce. We have to find ways to motivate him and practise more using his lips.

1 comment:

Ide Kaoru said...

After reading this post, I had an idea... Do you play "pretend" with Adrian? Maybe you can get him a doctor set (if he doesn't have one now) and play doctor with him. You can show him how it's done with you performing a check-up on daddy, and then let Adrian has his turn on you. Maybe he will see his next appointment as the doctor playing pretend with him and be more cooperative.