My 6th #20Time Reflection

Hey this is Kay! Today I am going to talk to you about the therapy that Kade has to have. Kade has to have therapy four times a week. He has physical therapy on Wednesday. In physical therapy Kade works on sitting up by himself and playing with his toys. He has occupational therapy, vision therapy, and speech therapy on Thursdays. Occupational therapy is a form of therapy for those recuperating from physical or mental illness that encourages rehabilitation through the performance of activities required in daily life. Vision therapy is when they work on Kade seeing things. He plays with toys that light up and are very bright so he can see them. In speech therapy they work on Kade eating things. They also try to get him to make sounds since he can't talk yet. On Fridays his Pre K teacher comes to his house from Hart County SKIP. The teacher just comes to play with him on those days. They work on playing with toys and playing with paint. After therapy Kade is very tired (especially on Thursdays.) When the therapist leaves Kade most of the time takes a nap. I want to be a physical therapist when I grow up, so I enjoyed learning about the kinds of therapy that Kade does. All in all, I enjoyed learning about these things more than I have the others even though everything I have learned is pretty interesting. Well that's all I have for today! -Kay

My 5th #20 Time Reflection

Hey this is Kay! Today I am going to talk about the kind of stretches Kade does and the braces he has to wear. Kade has to do his stretches because he has cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy causes the muscles to be tight. If Kade does not stretch then his muscles won't go back to normal. The tightest part of Kade's body is his arms, so we start by stretching those. We stretch his arms over his head and across his body. Next, we stretch his legs. We stretch his legs apart and up. Then, we stretch his back by turning him side to side while sitting up. After that, we lean him side to side. Lastly, we move his neck up and down, and side to side. Now I'm going to tell you some more about Kade's braces. Kade has AFOs, which are his short braces. To put those on you have to slide them on his feet and then you strap them around his legs. He has to keep his AFOs on almost all day. Kade's long braces are called KFOs. The long braces are to help keep his legs straight. He only wears these braces for about an hour or so. To put these on you have to slide them on his kegs and then strap them around his legs. Kade also has a thing called a separator that keeps his legs apart when he has on his braces. The last kind of braces that Kade has are thumb braces, which he doesn't wear a lot. In order to learn all of this I went up to his house for about an hour. His mother told me about all of these things and even let me put the braces on Kade. I was very confused about all of his braces and his stretches at first but then I understood. I have to take a lot of notes in order to remember all of these things. My next post will be about about Kade's therapy. Well that's all I have for today! -Kay