Came across this interesting article (The Effects of Motor Planning Deficits on School Function) on motor planning and its affect on success in school. Although Nate is still preschool age, it's definitely on my mind how all this is going to play out when he's in kindergarten. His teachers are concerned about his difficulty using scissors and I've noticed that it seems to be difficult for him to put on his clothes or runs a little awkwardly. Toward the end of May we will be seeing some additional specialists. I'm hoping that if needs some Occupational Therapy, he will receive services. I don't think that his motor planning issues are severe but he may need some additional help.
We've been working with Nate his different oral exercises and encouraging him to say initial sounds as often as we can get him to. The other day, his oldest brother was pouring him some juice. We were encouraging Nate to say /j/. He said it once and we tried to get him to say it again. While we were repeating the sound, he tipped his head slightly downward and then looks at Julien and looks at me and back at his brother again, all the while with a sneaky little grin on his face. He can be so sneaky sometimes. After those little glances, he attempted the /j/ sound again. We continue to take one day at a time...that's all we can do.
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