No flies on me!!!
Hiya,
back again on a beautiful Monday morning.
One nice point of the week was a fly in our house!! This normally creates chaos with my son screaming and general flapping of arms. This time was different.......his simple reaction of pointing to the fly and saying "small fly". Back to playing and ignoring the fly. It was as if the last two years of utter "insect" induced craziness in our house never existed. I was very happy as you can imagine and I know its a lot of work by our special teachers and us in dealing with this issue.
To a lesser extent the draw/door opening and shutting slacked off this week. However, it is being replaced by this weeks new entry, straight in at number one........light switches!!!!! This began with the light in the back of the car and has moved to any light switch in the house, now they are within reach. The amount of stimulation he gleans from this is unbelievable. I wish I could find something that did that to me!!! Seriously, we are trying to address it and I hope this doesnt take two years.
School seems to be bringing out the social side of my son. He has a couple of friends at school who have taken to him and dont react to his different ways and lack of communication. I have mentioned his parallel playing before but a couple of times this weekend I saw him actively try and play with his brother and other children at a park. I mean HE initiated it physically by chasing/following or trying to join in. This is a huge step for us and him of course. Verbally he is still limited and cant get his intention across.
On the work side of school, his class are learning the alphabet. The class is expected to recognise them all in three weeks. My son is trying to learn one letter a week. This again rams home the impact autism has on a childs life and learning curve. Its hard not to get upset for him when you know he is trying but it just wont sink in.
How spooky!!! Just got an email from the NAS regarding a 10k run I am doing in May next year. Its the Bupa 10000 and they are happy for me to run for them. Its good as I can run for my sons charity and I have a great reason to get fit. :-)
One last thing that is also stimulating for him, that drives us and the neighbours bonkers.......the volume on the TV. If he is able, the volume will be full blast especially if its DVD time. Pingu at number 100 on the TV is a little too loud for us but he loves it. He has no hearing issues but just gets excited by the noise.
Have a great week!!!!
back again on a beautiful Monday morning.
One nice point of the week was a fly in our house!! This normally creates chaos with my son screaming and general flapping of arms. This time was different.......his simple reaction of pointing to the fly and saying "small fly". Back to playing and ignoring the fly. It was as if the last two years of utter "insect" induced craziness in our house never existed. I was very happy as you can imagine and I know its a lot of work by our special teachers and us in dealing with this issue.
To a lesser extent the draw/door opening and shutting slacked off this week. However, it is being replaced by this weeks new entry, straight in at number one........light switches!!!!! This began with the light in the back of the car and has moved to any light switch in the house, now they are within reach. The amount of stimulation he gleans from this is unbelievable. I wish I could find something that did that to me!!! Seriously, we are trying to address it and I hope this doesnt take two years.
School seems to be bringing out the social side of my son. He has a couple of friends at school who have taken to him and dont react to his different ways and lack of communication. I have mentioned his parallel playing before but a couple of times this weekend I saw him actively try and play with his brother and other children at a park. I mean HE initiated it physically by chasing/following or trying to join in. This is a huge step for us and him of course. Verbally he is still limited and cant get his intention across.
On the work side of school, his class are learning the alphabet. The class is expected to recognise them all in three weeks. My son is trying to learn one letter a week. This again rams home the impact autism has on a childs life and learning curve. Its hard not to get upset for him when you know he is trying but it just wont sink in.
How spooky!!! Just got an email from the NAS regarding a 10k run I am doing in May next year. Its the Bupa 10000 and they are happy for me to run for them. Its good as I can run for my sons charity and I have a great reason to get fit. :-)
One last thing that is also stimulating for him, that drives us and the neighbours bonkers.......the volume on the TV. If he is able, the volume will be full blast especially if its DVD time. Pingu at number 100 on the TV is a little too loud for us but he loves it. He has no hearing issues but just gets excited by the noise.
Have a great week!!!!
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