There's been lots happening and here's a few of the projects that I'm currently working on:
Making splints using the scraps of neoprene in our store room and inserting old spoons to act as a framework to set the wrist into a good position:
Making a stackload of worksheets that involve cutting, colouring, pasting and other general fine motor skills. This is me slightly extending my scope of practice where I've pushed at the boundary of being a Physio, stepped over the line into being an OT, ran a few more steps to the are titled: "teacher and curriculum development person". The children have a very limited amount of hands-on opportunities to cut, paste and interact with general classroom objects. Most lessons are spent being lectured by a teacher or copying off the blackboard. These ideas came to me when I was taking small groups for fine motor activities and then realised that I wasn't able to reach out to ALL the students who needed help. Then I realised that even some of the children in the Hearing Impaired department also needed opportunities for fine motor input to develop their language which then led to me taking classes to demonstrate to the teachers that interacting with paper, scissors, glue, peers and doing something other than copying off the board could actually have a myriad of learning opportunities, language development AND children with fine motor issues would get a chance at using their weak muscles during classroom activities. (Sorry, long sentence.) What was originaly basic therapy for the whole school has become a huge chunk of curriculum development.
So here's some beads made from brochures...
And some worksheets to learn about counting, houses, and shapes...
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