Flower Pegs

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S: The client walked in the gym alert; however, was uncooperative 100% during the treatment session.
O: Structural sit-down fine motor activity with the flower pegs, handwriting and obstacle course to increase cognition, memory, work behavior, fine and gross motor skills, body awareness and sensory inputs.
--Structural sit-down fine motor activity with the flower pegs to form a towel and pulling them apart to increase hand strength, gripping, grasping, hand and eye coordination and visual scanning. --Handwriting activity--The child was instructed by the OT to copy the alphabets, write his name, write upper case alphabets, and write vertical line (standing line), horizontal line (sleeping line), writing his name and alphabets to increase letter formation, visual scanning, and grasping. --5 steps of obstacle course for 5 rounds with another client, which included jumping over 2 hurdles, duck walk,walking on bars, hopping on 4 colored strips with one leg and identifying a card with the speech therapist to improve compliance, body awareness, orientation, activity tolerance,
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Negative reinforcement was employed for failing to comply with the OT when he was requested to return the peg he took when the OT diverted her attention elsewhere. During the obstacle course, the client became very angry, self-stimulating by screaming aloud, clapping hands, hitting his mouth with his fist and slapping his jaws for no apparent reasons. The OT thought it was his allergies; however, his mother stated that he doesn’t have allergies now. The OT employed positive reinforcement, therapeutic use of self, active friendliness to calm him down in order to participate in 5 rounds instead of 10

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