Friday night

We spent both of our PT sessions today working on skills. This morning we revisited car transfers. We've been doing them for some time of course, but today the goal was to have Linda transfer without assistance. It went without a hitch. Linda can do that well, so I expect we'll just do them that way from now on.

This afternoon we worked on the walker. We started with walking sideways. The walker is too narrow to fit in the bathroom, but Linda should be able to walk with it sideways though the door fine. Then we worked on using the walker up and down a curb. Finally, we did stairs again. Needless to say, that was a pretty exhausting 30 minutes.

I haven't mentioned speech much lately, but Linda keeps working on pitch and duration with some nasality exercises thrown in, and she seems to improve gradually. Her speaking is definitely becoming easier for people to understand, even to some extent in noisier environments. As an aside, I am definitely going to write some speech therapy software, because there should be a free software offering in that arena. If nothing else, it would allow Rusk to have one more computer available (there is a good bit of competition over the one we use).