Joe C - Physical Therapy - PT Shannon & Norma, Jan 2011 (6 min)

Physical Therapy --

Here, Joe is doing physical therapy with Physical Therapist, Shannon, and home teacher, Norma, at a Therapy Center to strengthen his core muscles.

Start (Total Time) Subject
:00 (2 min:31 sec) Ball Pit
2:31 (:54 sec) Tilting Bridge
3:25 (:53 sec) Balance Beam
4:18 (:50 sec) Standing on inflated "pillow" while knocking down items
5:08 (1 min:36) Bowling from kneeling position on inflated "pillow"
= 6 min:44 sec

11 y.o. Joe C. has autism and is essentially nonverbal, although he has recently been making great strides in his efforts to speak. He has a dedicated home classroom to supplement his special needs school, which has been a blessing with so many snow days this year!

Joe is so special; he had successful brain surgery at age 10 to correct a seizure disorder and has been making huge gains as a result!

60 minutes of video done in Jan/Feb 2011 can be viewed in 7 separate segments:

Joe C -- Home Lesson (14 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkmdyo7kEd4

Joe C -- Verb Cards (3 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLrrciqXuM

Joe C -- Letters, Reading, Quantity (6 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2B_0yO81S4

Joe C -- Number cards 1 -- 61 (15 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cmClG2QvPM

Joe C -- Number cards 61 -- 100 (10 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRmvcaKe94

Joe C -- Therapy Ball Exercises -- PT Shannon & Norma (3 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBn_udj-MV0

Joe C -- Physical Therapy -- PT Shannon & Norma (6 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCbENBbFeHU

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Autism
• ABA
• Special Needs
• Pediatric Physical Therapy

[debwings]

I'm grinning reading your comment. I think that therapists who work in pediatric centers tend to talk that way in general! Also, since Joe is essentially nonverbal, a lot of people speak as if he has difficulty understanding.

Joe actually understands normal adult conversation fluently in Spanish as well as English! I suspect he has a smattering of other languages as well - he likes to find Teletubbies or Blues Clues or nursery rhymes on YouTube in Japanese, French, and Russian!

[MrHopechild]

why did she talk to him like he was 24 months.