Brag Day Wednesday

Assembly_Reqd

Post em!

bumpuser511563

One of the IEP team members, the diagnostician, returned my call after thanksgiving holiday and mentioned that DS should be in a mainstream classroom. Currently he is in the autism class.

DH and I proposed at the IEP meeting last Friday that DS should be mainstreamed for any part of the day for a small amount of time. They will allow DS 15 minutes in the mainstream classroom and slowly increase it. This will all start in January.

I am excited and nervous at the same time. DH and I met the mainstream teacher yesterday.

typeset

Miracle of miracles, he figured out how to take off his own t-shirts. Next up: putting them on. 

bumpuser511563

typeset said:

Miracle of miracles, he figured out how to take off his own t-shirts. Next up: putting them on. 

Ha! Half the time DS wants to pull shirts through his butt!

funchicken

My vegetable hating five year old asked me to make her a salad for dinner last night. DH and I eat a lot of vegetables/salads, and we always offer them to her, and she always says no. I don't know why she wanted a salad yesterday--she only ate a couple of bites of it, but it still felt like progress

Assembly_Reqd

The shoes have stayed on in the car due to the prize bucket. I think he has earned 6 or 7 prizes. Not talking about the shoes at all has also helped.

d.f

Today DS's teacher said "he's doing so well...we're over the hump". :-)

I wrote this out for him to copy at his direction on another sheet of paper and then used the Handwriting Without tears app to show him how to form the less familiar letters but he wrote this all himself. :-)

Oh and a brag for me. My local Children's Hospital is putting on a 9 month (the time commitment is one half day a month) Child advocacy boot camp. There was only 20 spots and a real application process (resume, 3 references, fairly indepth questionnaire). I just got my acceptance letter. :-)