The core strengthening ball is being used by all the kids. Tressa is balance and of course strengthening er core muscles to help her with endurance and exterior muscle tone. Her inside muscles must gain strength to offer further growth to the fine motor skills. This seems to be the most over looked PT skill in the education world. If they can walk on campus they are able to move about their educational grounds it is no longer educationally relevant to continue PT...well any school PT/OT knows that if the core is not functioning properly this lend to weak fine motor so we work on this at home. I have enough battles to face than review teaching folks what their college days did... and truth be told it is all about $$$ funding...BUDGET as the new new language in America is spoken in 2009. Making the numbers BALANCE...well exactly what the goal is for my children I want their bodies to BALANCE so they can have a quality life as well....so there you go Mr. President...one more list from your common citizen...put that in our purple folder.