Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!

Randy had his therapies today. For speech today, Vanessa went over Randy's homework. She said he did a great job on his assignment. Next, she had him do a "quick thinking" piece. She had Randy read the instructions aloud, which stated to give possible answers to each question and to be creative. When Randy started, he only gave one answer to the first question and then went on to the next. Vanessa reminded him that the instructions were to give 4 answers. After the reminder, Randy followed the directions accurately. An example of what the task was: Randy was given the statement "A woman with an empty pram. Why?" and he had to come up with 4 answers. Randy's answers were:

1. To get out of credit card debt, the woman sold her child
2. The baby was very ambidexterous and was able to sccot out of the carriage and away
3. A family had pet monkey and while the woman was walking down the street, the monkeys got out of the pram and ran up a tree.
4. The lady didn't have any way to get the groceries home when she went to the strore, so she took the pram wo carry them in.

One of the homework assignments Vanessa gave him was to go to the yahoo game site and play Text Twist. Randy told her about the games from the website of gamesforthebrain.com that he has been enjoying playing. He has also been playing Word Whomp from pogo.com.

In occupational therapy, Tina tested Randy on his reaction time using the driving simulator. They practiced going from brake to the gas pedal ten times and Randy passed. She also worked on Randy's visual scanning skills through a training video. He had to use the brake and turn at given signals and react to the action signs. The results of that test will be given next time. Tina also tested Randy's strength. She did the squeezing test and the pinching ~ there were improvments. She also tested his speed of putting pegs in a pegboard with both his left and his right hand. His speed had improved from the previous times. So improvements are being made!

In physical therapy, Randy worked on the exercise bike to warm up. He then moved to walking sideways, marching, walking backwards, and crossing of one foot over the other both in front and in back.

Randy and his mom then went to Cass's Halloween party at her school.

This evening, we took Cass around the block to go "trick-or-treating". We made it around our little cul-de-sac and then came back home for the car. It was a bit chilly outside. At least, it wasn't raining! It was cold enough that Cass didn't insist on going around our entire block as she has done in the past.