Oct 14, 2008

PBMT - Day 307

Our quarterly ST session at DK came up today. Mama was ashamed to tell the ST how little improvements Adrian has made in this three months. Adrian still can't blow, can't utilize his lips (e.g. he'd say "us" instead of "bus") and can't juggle his tongue left or right. A good thing that the ST mentioned though, is Adrian loves reading. He actually reads out loud (in his own baby language) and sometimes follow what Mama reads to him and that's how he learns his 1 - 10. So the ST suggested we keep on doing this and continue all the blowing exercise. Really hope we can bring the ST some good news the next time we see him in Jan 2009.

1 comment:

Ide Kaoru said...

Don't know if this will work, but if you're looking for blowing exercises, why not try blowing paint?

I saw it on a kid's program "Mr. Maker" (a UK program actually). What you have to do is gently dilute some water color, drip a few drops on a piece of paper, and show Adrian how to blow air through a straw at the water color droplets to make a picture. I think seeing how the paint runs in different direction will be good enough incentive for him. (* Just make sure that the straw does not touch the paint though, or he would've suck the paint right up to his mouth!)

On the same note, I wouldn't suggest bubble blowing just yet, because I remember when I first started Kate off with bubble blowing, somehow a lot of the bubble water ended in her mouth instead. I don't know why, maybe she was trying too hard to put the bubble stick closer to her mouth in an attempt to get more bubbles.