Concentrating so hard the tongue is out |
Go lefty! |
In any case, now that we are getting older and wanting to do more things it's going to be more and more important to make lefty arm functional as possible. Can anyone say POTTY TRAINING, hard enough to do by itself let alone without the function of one of the toddler's arms. So after talking with OT and a lil nudging from mama we got a brace made for righty to do a bit more formal lefty work. So while it's not full-time like "real" constraint therapy it is making Jim and I set aside special time to work on lefty. Since she loves Elmo and the color red we had her OT make the cast out of red material and Annabelle now calls it the "elmo bwaay"...
Workin hard with the Elmo brace on |
She likes to say it, then hates when we put it on. It makes a great weapon too and she took a fabulous gouge out of her changing table when she was wailing it around in a fit.... boo. She did pretty well with it on in our actual therapy session when she was given some snacks to get into her mouth (so my kid... easily bribed by food). She's not too keen on puttin blocks into the jar though. Next on our list at home is to try the snack idea!
"Elmo bway ooooff". Also, we are ignoring the W-sitting while working with the arm, thanks for noticing ;-) |
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