Just Keeps Getting Better

Another great day for Taylor. The Occupational Therapist from CNIB (Lara) was here this morning for a home visit. She did a contrast test on Taylor to see how much contrast Taylor needs to capture her visual attention. She did awesome!!! The test was simply showing her an assortment of faces on big white cards. The first one was a black and white face, which is 100% contrast. They went down from there and the faces looked like a lighter and lighter shade of grey on white down to the very lowest which was nearly white on white. Taylor managed to see all the way down to only 5% contrast!!!! The 10% one was better, but the 5% contrast did capture her attention. Way to go girl :-)

Lara said that we can start working on establishing object permanence so that when Taylor drops an object and it goes out of sight/sound, she will learn that it is still there and that she can find it again. By using objects with noise like bells or rattles or squeaky toys, when she drops it we can make its noise and see if she turns to look for it. If not we can guide her hand and or body towards it. In time she will be able to find the object again after dropping it, rather than just thinking it's gone.