Thanks. I am sure I would find the article interesting. We haven't seen my son's OT for help with his vestibular and proprioceptive issues in a couple of months due to problems with our insurance. The OT never had him do Interactive Metronome. She had him working on swings so we put up a tire swing at home. She said to keep him walking as much as possible because hypotonia and low endurance is still a problem.
I know that one of my son's G/T friends who is 4 yrs older and in public school is much better at Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution than my son. My son, with practice, is okay at the beginner levels, but has difficulty moving any higher, but I think he does well for someone with motor dyspraxia. I know that my son read a lot earlier than his friend and my son uses a lot higher level vocabulary in his speech than his older friend and is also more creative in his use of words. My son is better and faster at coming up with funny verbal quips and puns. Whatever part of my son's brain is processing vocabulary, comprehension, and reading and verbal creativity must be working very well, even though my 2E son's visual motor skills and coordination are not as good as his friend's. My son also picks up math concepts very quickly.
My son's very athletic cousins who walked early and seem gifted physically would probably do well with timing. One of them is the high school quarterback, another plays piano, but they don't seem gifted intellectually even though they are bright.
The OT thought my son still might have a slight problem with visual processing and this might have something to do with his slowness in doing jigsaw puzzles, so I have him do geography jigsaw puzzles a few times a week even though he complains that it is summer break and he doesn't want to do them. I also keep him in piano lessons through the summer even though his cousin gets to take a break and my son thinks this is unfair. I keep telling him he is working on forming new neural pathways and he argues that his disability is part of what makes him unique and that I should quit trying to change him.
I have been trying to talk him into taking private dance lessons as a fun way to work on coordination and he doesn't think this sounds fun at all.
He is still very skeptical about being able to create new neural pathways by doing things that he doesn't want to do and I can't find any good articles on that. If you happen to see an article like that I would certainly love to see it.
