XX is a five-year-old girl with a diagnosis of McCune Albright Syndrome. Results from the current evaluation indicate that XX ’s cognitive functioning is in the average range for her age, with significant strength in regard to her visual working memory skills. Her verbal memory skills are at an age appropriate level. XX ’s visual perception and visual motor skills are in the average range for her age. XX ’s adaptive communication and socialization skills were reported by her parents to be at an age appropriate level. Her daily living skills (personal self-care skills such as bathing and dressing and domestic skills, such as household chores) were in the moderately low range for her age, though her parents reported that the challenge is at times due to her physical limitations and at times due her resistant to complete activities of this type. At the evaluation, ways to address the physical challenges were discussed with XX ’s parents, such as strategies such as adding a zipper pull to her zippered jackets to help her successfully pull up zipper independently. The use of strategies to address her occasional non-compliance was also discussed, such as using visual schedules with pictures outlining the steps of her …show more content…
It is also recommended XX ’s parents work to improve her sleep hygiene as restorative sleep is essential for her physical and mental health. Strategies such as maintaining a regular and consistent sleep schedule (with a consistent bedtime) and use of a consistent bedtime routine every night may help XX transition to sleep. As was recommended with the daily routines, XX may benefit from using a visual checklist of steps in the bedtime routine in order to help her transition to bed at night. For more information regarding sleep resources visit The National Sleep Foundation (https://.sleepfoundation.org) or