Orientation and Mobility

[Guest guest]

(20 months) just started working with an orientation and

Mobility Specialist and she has been such a wonderful help that I

thought I would share some of the things that she is doing with my

son and maybe it will help others. likes to back scoot around

the living room and he never explored other rooms in the house. We

needed some sort of encouragement to get him to first crawl forward

more often and second to leave his comfort zone in the living room

and venture around the house. Some of the things that she did that

made a big difference are bringing a remote control car it drives

really slow, I use the controller and he has been chasing it around

the living room. Also we moved the car around the house and he

actually follows it into other rooms in the home. The car is made by

parents and it has flashing lights (of course) and makes sound. We

also use a Bright Yellow Chicken that waddles and does the chicken

dance, he moves forward to catch the chicken. The next thing that we

wanted him to do is visually see that the coffee table has corners

and continues beyond the small part that he stands up, leans on and

plays on. We put Bright Yellow Electrical tape around the edges of

the coffee table and immediately he moves around the table now. She

also had me velcro pictures on the under side of the coffee table and

he sits under it to look at the pictures. That is all I can think of

for now but will share more as we go along.

However, likes vibration and sound, one day I dropped a spoon

on the tile in the kitchen and I am not kidding you spoons are now

his favorite toy, they are shiny and they make a really neat sound

when you drop them, he picks it up and drops it on the tile as he

lays his head on the tile to get the best affect from the vibration.

All for now, hope it helps.