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Evening Day 3

Well it appears that we have two levels of behaviour.  That which he exhibits during the day when it is one on one, and that which is displayed in the evenings when everyone is home.  Tonight he was all about the word no. Everything we said, “no” was the response, didn’t matter if we were talking to him or not.  20 minutes of solitude under a blanket for that and other inappropriate behaviour and things were fine.  The most pressing behaviour is that he doesn’t want to listen.

Just a matter of changing or adapting our parenting style, if this is the only issue that we have, we are rocking.  However I feel that we are still in the honeymoon phase after his return from the residential facility. Only time will tell if that is an accurate portrayal of the situation and his behaviour.

On another front, the clozaril affected his white blood count so he had to stop taking it.  We had to do a blood draw everyday, until it was above a certain level, and now that it is above that level, we have to do a blood draw every other day for a month.  No word yet on whether or not he can get back on the clozeril.  He had developed a cold, so maybe the decrease was related to an illness and not the medication.

Questions for the doctor at any rate.

More later.

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 quite a feat.

The teachers have issues with his personal hygiene.  Mostly that he doesn’t tie his shoes, and never tucks in his pockets. I explained that some things are just not on his radar of important things to worry about.  He wears slip on shoes now, so shoe laces are no longer an issue, but even when he had shoe laces, he never tripped over his laces.  The science teacher is concerned about when they get into human anatomy and reproduction, and how our son will react.  I asked how any other 7th grade boy reacts.  So we will wait and see. In time, they will need to do some dissection, hopefully our son will handle it well.

Moving forward we talked about him joining some brain athletic teams, and the golf team. Overall, things are looking very positive for our son.  He has a memory and level of understanding of the topics that are presented to him that they are not able to always quantify.

Now we have two IEP’s left.  Our oldest boy and our youngest.  Both of which promise to be a struggle with the school. Oh, and the detention happened because our son the linguist dropped the f-bomb three times when walking into a classroom.

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.

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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.