Today was a very productive day. I went out on four visits, the first visit was seeing a little boy with down syndrome. We put out an obstacle course for him to complete and worked on running and tried to encourage jumping. The second visit was a five year old girl who is severely delayed and can not walk yet. She has a lot of equipment such as standing frames, walkers, AFOs, back brace and others. My supervisor needed to complete an assessment, so I got the opportunity to watch how it goes. I think it was called the MOVE assessment and is based on asking her mum questions and if unsure, then getting her to do the activity. I had a go at getting her to high kneel, which she needed a lot of help and support with, but unfortunately she bit me really hard, no blood luckily. The next two appointment were very similar, both girls has down syndrome and we tried to get them to do activities such as walking beam, stepping stones, throwing and catching a ball and trike riding. The young girl who I was supposed to do the NSMDA assessment on wasn't in a good mood and didn't want to do anything. To try and get her to join in, I stepped back so that mum was able to persuade her to do somethings. We did as much as we could with her but the assessment will have to be continued at her next appointment.
Only one day left :) I have only one appointment tomorrow morning but a lot of notes to write.