You know that the school year will get off to a good start when...
You tell your school-district team leader the name of your autism-therapy senior therapist, and her face lights up, and she says something to the effect of, "Oh good, we've worked together before, she does a great job and she runs her meetings so well too."
And then,
you tell your autism-therapy senior therapist the name of your school-district team leader, and her face lights up, and she says something to the effect of, "Oh good, we've worked together before, she's great to work with and has such good ideas."
The world needs more of that kind of light!
We are finally getting closer to having a full schedule with Joy's intensive autism therapy, plus this was the first week for her of seeing all three of her school district therapists, who work on an itinerant basis, coming to work with her at home and daycare. Joy's pushing back a little bit about all those hours spent with adults bugging her to be interactive and DO things, I think, but I'm hoping that she'll get used to the full schedule before too long.
Meanwhile, one more thing that's making my face light up -- since September 1, we've been on another string without knock-down seizures. Target date for month-a-versary party: October 1. We shall see.
2 comments:
So glad to hear things are going well!
Interested in hearing more about Joy's intensive autism therapy. Is it all ABA based?
I've been trying to get Kayla to work with me, but she just covers her eyes and cries. Sigh.
Datri - for intensive we're doing a version of Floortime, heavily influenced by the Communicating Partners work of James McDonald. The school district folks have rather more of a behaviorist bent, but we're not doing any ABA per se. I'll have to do a detailed post on what exactly our therapy looks like, since I've got family members who are asking too!
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