Brag Day Wednesday!

Assembly_Reqd

Post yer brags!

MirandaHobbes

DS made a leap forward socially this past weekend. The weather was warm and the pack of neighborhood kids were out in force. Last summer he wasn't mature enough to play with them unattended (I'd have to make sure he didn't run into the street, turn on other houses outdoor hoses, and in general keep him on task to the other kids). On Saturday I prompted him to invite the kids over to our backyard and for almost FOUR HOURS straight he played with them- in our yard, and then in theirs, with only occasional redirection by myself. He was exhausted by the end of the day and far less cranky. He happily accepted invitations to the other kids yards on Sunday, too. It was such a relief to see that he wants to play with the other kids, even if sometimes he doesn't know how. To this end, the fact that the ringleader of the group is a 2nd grade girl plays well in his favor because she is very motherly and bossy.

hopecounts

The ABA  therapist who will be doing DD's swim lessons this summer went into her session today to introduce herself to DD and meet her.

DD responded to the therapist's "Hi" with "Hi, how are you?" still needs some work as it's socially off a bit but it's huge that she responded not just with Hi but with something more and completely unprompted.

bumpuser511563

DS participated in water day on Monday at school. He was soaked wet with water and saying he "was dirty." We tried correcting him that he was wet. He has asd so he was a bit panicked by the feeling of wet clothes on his skin. We all assured him he was okay. He then wanted to play in the water again when water day was over.

I have another brag. DS graduated from preschool today. They did a performance and all the kids danced and sang. DS just stood there with the rest of the class but he had his lime green stuffed turtle with him. The teacher called his name and DS went up with the turtle to get his diploma. The teacher hugged him and asked if his turtle was going to kindergarten, too. Yeah, that stuffed turtle is going to kindergarten with us because it is in DS's IEP!

Assembly_Reqd

Backstory: Our state's school for the deaf has three levels of admission...General, Transitional(needs some support OT, PT, etc) and Enhanced Services (special needs beyond deafness and requires an aid). When Nate turned three, we applied to see what placement he would get. Answer:Enhanced Services. We would need the local school district to agree to this placement because they foot the bill for the aid. So, we stayed on an extended IFSP for him to gain more skills and hopefully get a Transitional admission for pre-k next year.

The woman in charge of the ES program does classroom observation as part of the admissions process. She observed Nate last week. Both his teachers and his speech therapist said that the ES chick was confused as to WHY she was there to evaluate Nate. "I am here to observe this child? Correct? He is NOT an ES student."

Everyone is pumped. PUMPED ! I hope the admissions committee does not continue to underestimate my kid. Fingers crossed that we get Transitional admission. I was afraid with ES we would have to have the City "buy in" to placement at the deaf school. Hearing loss is by no means his greatest challenge, but we love, love, love the school and he uses ASL expressively since his speech is not intelligible. Go NATE!

august06mom

Ds2 sat next to a little girl while waiting for DS1 to finish karate. He even peered over her shoulder to watch her play on her iPad. He usually won't even go near the kids there, much less sit next to them. He just plopped down right beside her.

DS1 has been kicking butt at baseball. He's actually playing instead of just goofing off the entire time.

algalphys

DS was attempting to share today...unfortunately he was hoping some older bits would give up their bubbles for his sand pail but oh he was trying.

Oh and I am finally at the point where I need to watch my mouth...the dog walked across the newspaper as I was reading it today so I called him an asshole under my breath. Well DS looks at me, points at the dog and says at-ho mommy at-ho. Oh I've got a lot of trouble ahead of me!

kcisthebombdotcom

Dd has been running a fever but hasn't seized. Woohoo!

ToastieSimons

DS1 made it through his whole school concert today!  He cried when he saw me but I just put the Ipad up to video him and he calmed right down.

He's in this strong separation anxiety phase, if he sees me he only wants me.  It's a good/bad place.  So good that he is developing and knows I'm mommy, but makes it so difficult to do things like this!

Junebug060609

DS has been using my pointed finger as a tool (or less frequently pointing himself) to answer question for a bit now. This week I asked him to show me several letters and he got most correct. He also basically did a whole puzzle by himself. Before he would barely focus long enough to do 1/4 of one.

typeset

Sneaking this in: we just secured a full-day integrated placement for the kid next fall. I feel like I've run a marathon. 

Junebug060609

I need another one.

HE POINTED!!!!!!!!!!

A huge freaking deal for my ASD sweetie

He has been throwing gang signs all week. Occurred to me today maybe he was trying to make a pointer. Huge smile when I asked if he was pointing. So I helped him tuck his thumb and pinky finger in this evening. Tonight before bed he pointed at a turtle in something we were looking at.

Assembly_Reqd

Assembly_Reqd said:

Backstory: Our state's school for the deaf has three levels of admission...General, Transitional(needs some support OT, PT, etc) and Enhanced Services (special needs beyond deafness and requires an aid). When Nate turned three, we applied to see what placement he would get. Answer:Enhanced Services. We would need the local school district to agree to this placement because they foot the bill for the aid. So, we stayed on an extended IFSP for him to gain more skills and hopefully get a Transitional admission for pre-k next year.

The woman in charge of the ES program does classroom observation as part of the admissions process. She observed Nate last week. Both his teachers and his speech therapist said that the ES chick was confused as to WHY she was there to evaluate Nate. "I am here to observe this child? Correct? He is NOT an ES student."

Everyone is pumped. PUMPED ! I hope the admissions committee does not continue to underestimate my kid. Fingers crossed that we get Transitional admission. I was afraid with ES we would have to have the City "buy in" to placement at the deaf school. Hearing loss is by no means his greatest challenge, but we love, love, love the school and he uses ASL expressively since his speech is not intelligible. Go NATE!

We got the letter on Friday. Nate qualified for an Educational placement! Yeah!!!11!!11