Meeting+Notes

=Notes from OT/PT meeting 10/ 19/11=


 * Field trips - votes**

Codding School Mass Hospital - 2 Love Lane Hippo Therapy - 5 BC Campus School Spalding - 3 Franciscan - 1 Perkinsl School / AT Library Easter Seals Lending Library Boston - 1 Developmental Optometrist - 2 Cathy Stern - 2 National - 1 Children's Hospital - 1 Karen Janowski Interactive Learning Center in Lexington - 3 Apple - 4 Main Street USA - 5

Vision/ eye hand coordination Outside placement Gait training Adaptive equipment How to get stuff Rhythm State lending library Use of swings for arousal (tire) Template/form from visits Interactive Metronome How to get stuff such as adaptive tricycles Fundraising (resources such as Donars Choose, Digital Wish) Mass Match (resource for assistive technology and adaptive equipment) Prevoc tasks - School examples
 * Topics**

November 30 Field Trips Love Lanes and Mainstreet USA
 * Schedule for the Year**

December 21 Budget discussion whole group; OT - tying in the common core curriculm PT - adaptive equipment discussion

February 15 Field Trips Spalding and Apple Store

April 11 TBD

Armand - where to go to ger your product ideas on the market...Abilitations, Rhodes company, DCI trinket things Maureen - pinterest Maria - W sitting Lynda- shoe tying w wire ribbon Nancy - themes throughout the year Debbie - ? Can you fill in? Beth - goalbook, an online site to share progress and record data on iEP goals https://goalbookapp.com/ Lisa - Dragon Naturally Speaking Heather - Boston Globe article about medical breakthroughs and the effects on special education services in school
 * Did You Know Round-Up**