Nardia was referred by Jaco Nel (Paediatrician) to the Child Development Team (CDT) in November 2014. The referral was for an assessment of her handwriting skills. Nardia presents with epilepsy and mild global developmental delay by Dr Jaco Nel. Nardia fully participated in the Visual Motor Integration and Visual Perception assessment (June 2015) and did not complete the Motor Coordination assessment due to Nardia’s attention and participation decreasing. Nardia listened to instructions and followed them correctly when completing the Beery VMI. When Nardia was asked after, how did she find that, she mentioned that she enjoyed drawing.
Nardia’s scores are as follows:
VMI raw score = 7, percentile = 0.8%
Visual perception raw score = 10, percentiles = 2%
Motor Coordination raw score = not completed
These results identify that Nardia’s fine motor and visual motor skills are lower than other children of this age. Highlighting her limitations in fine motor skills and reduced …show more content…
For assessing Nardia’s independence with daily living skills, this block of therapy focused specifically on: Independence in getting dressed; Increasing her hand function ability; Proficiency in independently utilizing toilet, hygienically managing to clean self; Increased ability to be independent in tidying bedroom and toy room; and setting the dining table for the evening meal. See Reward sheet attached
Kiri and Nardia mentioned how well this reward chart was functioning for them and that Nardia was going swimming and the park at the weekend as a reward for moving all the tokens across to the green tick when completed. Nardia agreed to participate in weekly home based activities, such as: drawing tasks; maze games; morning ADL reward chart; and making Halloween pumpkin
Nardia’s scores are as follows:
VMI raw score = 7, percentile = 0.8%
Visual perception raw score = 10, percentiles = 2%
Motor Coordination raw score = not completed
These results identify that Nardia’s fine motor and visual motor skills are lower than other children of this age. Highlighting her limitations in fine motor skills and reduced …show more content…
For assessing Nardia’s independence with daily living skills, this block of therapy focused specifically on: Independence in getting dressed; Increasing her hand function ability; Proficiency in independently utilizing toilet, hygienically managing to clean self; Increased ability to be independent in tidying bedroom and toy room; and setting the dining table for the evening meal. See Reward sheet attached
Kiri and Nardia mentioned how well this reward chart was functioning for them and that Nardia was going swimming and the park at the weekend as a reward for moving all the tokens across to the green tick when completed. Nardia agreed to participate in weekly home based activities, such as: drawing tasks; maze games; morning ADL reward chart; and making Halloween pumpkin