Better Week

Hi everyone,
Well, things have gotten somewhat better with Bear, not perfect, but some days are better. I think that it helped that he finally got to spend some time with his dad this weekend, not much, but at least some. His dad's schedule is totally opposite of mine and they have been short staffed so he has been working almost all the time. Bear has had two good days at school though. I hope he will tomorrow too, but he got to bed a little later tonight and I think he is coming down with a cold.
But, back to the situation. On Thurs we had the first reevaluation meeting for Bear since his IEP was started in 2006. He will have all the original testing that was done then, done again to see where he is. In addition, the team voted to have him observed by a member of the Autism Cadre and he will be screened for ADD and Autism by the school system Dr. I was pleased with that option since I didn't really want to use the two that we knew of outside of the system. Plus, he will not have to miss school. It can be done right there. If it is determined that he is showing autistic behaviors as we suspect, then the head of the Autism cadre can suggest some strategies that will help him. Our system tends to use picture prompts for autism, but Bearz VI said there are some avaialble systems with tactile prompts, so we will see how that goes.
He had his first home work this week. He had to sort 4 different shapes into groups. His VI put Wikki Sticks on the paper so he could feel the boarders of the groups and the items he had to put on were the sticky backed foam shapes. He had a slightly frustrating time getting the paper off the back of the stickers, but he did it. Real home work where we will need to do some adapting begins in Oct.
Bear has travelled away from Dinosaur love a little and is now very interested in Taxi Cabs. I find that funny becasue we have never been in one. I'm thinking it came from a story he heard or something. Today he wanted a Taxi cab sandwich. We spend a lot of time listenning to things on the computer. I never realized all the sounds effects you could find on the computer. It has now become his reward. He knows that if he gets a green day at school, we will listen to things on the computer. He loves to hear animals of all kinds, convertibles, funrances, washing machines, vacuums, ice-cream trucks, fire engines, etc. He is very specific. Tomorrow night he is planning to hear a digital thermometer, a walrus, a vulture and the sound of an alligator running. Sure hope he has that green day again. I' m curious to hear what a vulture sounds like. hmmm

Have a great day!
Blessings,

BEARZ Mom