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Day 3 ~ Under the Weather

He must not be feeling good today. Here it is after 10am and he is still wanting to sleep. He is fighting a sinus infection, but that has been going on for a couple of days. Blood draw at 11:45 again. Then we are going on an outing to the hardware store to price out a new dryer since ours died. Having a family of seven means that our appliances get a lot of use. After lunch, school work time. 🙂 He does it without complaint. I am so impressed. We are still working on getting another meeting setup with his IEP team so that he can return to public school, but so far this seems to be working. Only time will tell, as I imagine he will get tired of seeing my face all of the time. A shout out to my friend Rob Gorski and his family over

IEP 1 of 3

Well, we have one IEP done for this year. Things are going well for our middle son, despite the autism. He is developing friendships with his peers, flirts with the girls, had an issue with electricity and gotten detention twice. He is high functioning in reading, comprehension, processing, and reasoning. He has issues with verbal communication. He reads at a level that they have a hard time measuring and comprehends at the same level. He is in the 7th grade. The teachers have issue with him just knowing the answer, they need him to write out how he comes to the answer, this is most prevalent in science and mathematics. In ag class, he can identify every tool, every seed, and can tell out of 10 or 15 different tools, which one is missing and what they are all used for. Considering we don’t live on a farm this is

Day 2 the evening. ~ frustrated

Well, everyone is home with our son and I. Five kids plus my wife and I. Our son seems to be content with pushing as many buttons as possible all evening long. Time-outs aren’t working. Quiet time isn’t working. He just wants to push push push. Every one is getting frustrated. I wish that they hadn’t been forced to take him off of the clozeril. Things are going to be much rougher than they were when he was in the residential facility. We did home visits and all of that before he was discharged and these behaviours weren’t in evidence at that time. Trying to cope. He isn’t like this during the day time when it is just him and I. ========= An hour later, we covered him completely with the blanket. Maybe too much input, as he is fine now. He has stopped pushing buttons and is relaxed. Tweet