Day 8

It's early Wednesday morning so I'll give an update of the last couple of days.

Basically, we've had no big changes, thus I haven't felt a need to update.

During therapy, Dom often is attentive but quiet, or if he does not want to participate in the therapist's choice of activity, he tries to leave the room. On day 7, he did his usual escape artist tactics when he did not want to play.

Twice now he has done something with a shape puzzle that I thought was odd. He knows the shapes, and when given the shapes (triangle, circle, rectangle, etc) to put into a puzzle, his eyes go right to the correct place, but he often does not put the puzzle piece into the puzzle. Instead he just lines the pieces up around himself, turning them over onto the "back side" of the piece (the back facing up instead of the color/printed side). He wants all of the pieces to himself and he'll go back and forth with the pieces, putting them on the front or back sides, but not wanting to put them into the puzzle board. Maybe he is just bored with the puzzle itself?

But he was very interested in the spelling of the words under the shapes on the puzzle board.

On day 7 he saw a sign in a parking lot and we looked at the letters. He noticed an S, T, and said Z. But he put his finger on the N on the sign. I suppose he had turned that letter in his mind to be a Z.

We do not have a scheduled therapy today. I'm glad because I need a day to breathe. And he was up before 5:30am and that does not bode well for being attentive to therapy.

Let's see what tomorrow brings.

dg