HUMP DAYEEE! aka Brag Day Wednesday

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kcisthebombdotcom

Finding the silver lining...DDs newfound alphabet/reading skills have really helped us find a way to practice artic and increase her language skills through using flash cards. She's saying lots of new words, attempting sounds she wouldn't previously attempt, and seems to be generalizing the words were practicing on the flash cards to real life. Score one for the good guys.

bumpuser511563

DS has almost mastered all of his goals for speech in his ASD class!

A week before school started, they offered an hour per week on his iep plus we were already doing 2 hours of private speech from a SLP masters degree student plus recently 13 hours of ABA which includes more speech!

Yay! I am walking on sunshine! I am obsessed with speech right now. I actually value it more than OT and PT for DS.

typeset

The kid had a cognitive delay on the Battelle when we started EI last fall. After a solid year of work, he aced the cognitive portion on his exit eval yesterday--to the point staff were scrambling to open materials they'd never used before. They ended up stopping that portion before he hit his ceiling to get through the rest of the assessment. 

The best part was the speech path who did the initial eval and swore to us ABA would irrevocably harm our kid was in room. She was blown away.

[He did nicely expose where he hits some of the diagnostic criteria. She put an array of ten objects in front of him with a flashcard with 5 on it and asked him to "give her five." He handed over the flashcard. He also responded when asked how he would feel if a friend was hurt, "I'd ask them 'are you okay?'"]

d.f

DS has had 4 great days at school in a row. (His teacher realized one of the antecedents to escalating his behavior is removing him from the group while she's reading a book). He's writing his name legibly (in all caps but I'll take it). He's coloring, drawing, and writing for fun (historically a majorly non-preferred activity).

buenaestrella77

My son is doing auditory verbal therapy and it's helped tremendously. He tries to imitate more words and last Thursday he said an approximation of his name. Happiness

Assembly_Reqd

Nate will pee and poop on the toilet regularly when we put him on it. Now we just need to get him to tell us when he needs to go and Phase 2 of PTing will begin.

funchicken

DD1 forgot to turn in her library book today, so she wasn't able to check out a new one. She was very upset about it when she got home and took a while to calm down. At dinner we talked about what might help her remember it next time, and I suggested making up a rhyme. DD liked that idea, so she came up with one: Hang your backpack on the hook, but don't forget your library book. We'll have to wait until next week to see if it works.

pastalady

My kid rode a bike. Like actually pedalled and moved it! I cried. She cannot steer but we are working on that. This summer she could move one rotation on the petals. I thought we wouldn't get too much further this year. But she did it!

lite-bright

DD1 started her first-grade (!!) reading group this week. 

She had a awesome soccer game this weekend, and despite spending some time "flying" around the field (she spreads out her arms like a bird as she runs and just toodles around after the other girls), she had two assists and one great block. 

I'm majorly sick right now (bacterial lung infection, just shy of pneumonia) and she had early release today. I brought her home and we snuggled on the couch together and watched a movie, and she wrapped her arm around my neck and told me, "Mama, your daughter Sophie will always be here to keep you company." 

This kid, man. This kid!

MirandaHobbes

My brag is very similar to a lot of these! I was going to post yesterday but I wanted to see how DS's day in school went first. It's official: 5 days in a row of "great" and "awesome" days! Especially surprising since he was on school break for 3 days last week and I just assumed he'd come back to school a hot mess. He is sight reading like a champ, and his handwriting has improved a lot, too. He can write his name so well, and in small spaces, that we're going to make a special trip to the library this weekend and get him a library card (they give out cards to kids old enough to sign their card). It feels good to see him so proud and happy. He is even self regulating- yesterday he impulsively dumped out 7 different puzzles all at once, just to make a mess. But, he apologized and said "don't worry, I'll put them all back together"- and he sat down and put every single puzzle together by himself (and puzzles are not a preferred activity for him!). It may be too early to tell, but I really hope I have my sweet rule boy back.