Occupational Therapy

So…the evaluation went well.  Sweet girl seemed to have a lot of fun playing-it lasted about an hour.  The OT had to define what exactly OT was because I really did not know.  Hubby stated she was too young to find a job…Ha ha.  I sorta understand.  It gives people the skills for the job of living according to Wikipedia.

She gave us some things to read and said she highly recommended occupational therapy at least once a week.  Gross motor, fine motor, oral motor, and sensory.  A new word:

Proprioception:It is the sense that indicates whether the body is moving with required effort, as well as where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other.  The evaluator stated that this word describes why she does what she does.  The arm flapping, spinning, plopping down, swinging, pushing…her central nervous system craves the sensory input.  I need to do some reading.  The evaluator said to give her jobs to do like pushing the laundry basket, carrying heavy things, wearing a backpack with beans in it.  The point of all of this is to help her CNS know where she is in space.  I guess somewhere during development her CNS did not or was not able to develop fully enough to learn spatial reasoning and her body does not receive organized sensory input.  The weight, force, and pressure allows her CNS to organize the sensory input.  How cool is that?  I wonder if all of these behaviors will eventually go away if the CNS is able to receive enough organized input.

We are waiting on the final report to find out what kind of service and frequency.