Bullet points because i am tired.
- Dominic has a runny nose. I have the full on head cold / sinus pain / sore throat. He's fine aside from clear snot. Good news is he's figured out how to actually blow his nose again. (He'd lost that particular talent for a while)
- We're done w/chelation until probably the end of September. The nutritionist I email with forwarded the email to the doc who said stop entirely until we sort out whats going on in his gut. So now we get to do another stool sample. Oh The Fun. Fortunately this one is just a one day test, the last one we did was a three day test. The probable cause for the huge increase in behavior issues and difficulty in focusing is that yeast went way out of whack. I don't know what the probable answer is - it could be a stronger antifungal, it could be a more strict diet (as if what we are doing wasn't strict enough...)
- The spitting behavior is almost entirely gone w/just being ignored. It was an attention getting mechanism. So gross as it is, we are really focusing on not reacting. The squealing is significantly reducing, as well, so that was probably a chelation related behavior, because we're still handling it the same way.
- Dominic is doing really well with his various therapists - and we're noticing more following instructions on the first try, paying attention, emulating, and asking for things than we were a few weeks ago.
- Dominic is still wanting stories, which is fantastic. We're now doing 2-3 each night before bed, and yesterday he wanted a book at Alpine, so they used a story for a reinforcer (in other words, he had to finish the required task, and then they read the story. He picked out a CARS book. No shock there).
- I accidently forgot to undo autoship for the disney movie club, and we got the movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Oddly enough, this has become his favorite movie of the week. I say oddly, because its the only one he likes this much thats not animated. He calls it the Dogs movie. its cute.
- No big plans for the weekend.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
good day...
Got to Alpine to pick Dominic up today, and as he was coming out, one of the therapists (they have 2 therapists per day work w/a kiddo, in 90min sections each. she had him first, another had him second) says "Hey your Kiddo did GREAT today". *score*
And the spit thing - decreases greatly when entirely ignored. its probably an attention getting behavior.
And the spit thing - decreases greatly when entirely ignored. its probably an attention getting behavior.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Parent meeting at Alpine today
We had our second monthly parent meeting at Alpine today. It went pretty well. Dominic is making good progress on his programs, and they are adding a couple of more - colors and shapes, I believe.
We talked with them about our vision for what we'd like long term - school district in the morning (we just got his new school placement - its maybe 5 minutes away, not too bad), from 8-10:45. Come home, have lunch, and then Alpine in the afternoon from 12:30-3:30. Through May. Then starting in June, if we can wrestle the funding, we'd like to do Alpine full day for the summer. If Kindegarten in 2010 is full day, we'll transfer to that w/an Alpine therapist there with him, if its half day, and he still needs it, we'll do half days at Alpine again. All presuming funding.... still no word on insurance coverage.
Dominic's behaviors are escalating - this whole spit bubble thing is driving us all wonky. Alpine is taking a week of ignoring it entirely - attempting to narrow down if this is an attention getting self stimulatory behavior OR an auto-reinforcing self stimulatory behavior. With ignoring, if its the first, the instances should drop drastically, and if its the second, they'll go up drastically. When we narrow down which one it is, we will be able to put a more effective plan in place to handle it. The other behavior thats making us crazy is the constant, never ended, high pitched squealing. He didn't used to do this. Its so. annoying.
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Tonight, Dominic started getting whiney and melted down right at bedtime. What was interesting was that I got him all tucked in, read him his favorite Nemo story (Just keep swimming...) and he started to cry again.... like he wanted something. I finally got that he was saying STORY, STORY, so I told him to get what he wanted. He very methodically selected Olivia from the bookshelf, I read it to him, and he went RIGHT to sleep. So, very cool that he asked for a second book, picked it out himself and stayed focus'd for the entire thing.
We talked with them about our vision for what we'd like long term - school district in the morning (we just got his new school placement - its maybe 5 minutes away, not too bad), from 8-10:45. Come home, have lunch, and then Alpine in the afternoon from 12:30-3:30. Through May. Then starting in June, if we can wrestle the funding, we'd like to do Alpine full day for the summer. If Kindegarten in 2010 is full day, we'll transfer to that w/an Alpine therapist there with him, if its half day, and he still needs it, we'll do half days at Alpine again. All presuming funding.... still no word on insurance coverage.
Dominic's behaviors are escalating - this whole spit bubble thing is driving us all wonky. Alpine is taking a week of ignoring it entirely - attempting to narrow down if this is an attention getting self stimulatory behavior OR an auto-reinforcing self stimulatory behavior. With ignoring, if its the first, the instances should drop drastically, and if its the second, they'll go up drastically. When we narrow down which one it is, we will be able to put a more effective plan in place to handle it. The other behavior thats making us crazy is the constant, never ended, high pitched squealing. He didn't used to do this. Its so. annoying.
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Tonight, Dominic started getting whiney and melted down right at bedtime. What was interesting was that I got him all tucked in, read him his favorite Nemo story (Just keep swimming...) and he started to cry again.... like he wanted something. I finally got that he was saying STORY, STORY, so I told him to get what he wanted. He very methodically selected Olivia from the bookshelf, I read it to him, and he went RIGHT to sleep. So, very cool that he asked for a second book, picked it out himself and stayed focus'd for the entire thing.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Alpine and D-11, and Chelation, oh my.
Not a lot of changes going on, but figured I'd put an update out.
Dominic's still having behavior issues w/the chelation, so after 5 doses, we've decided to stop for a couple of weeks and get it settled back down, then will resume. Very slowly. His focus has slipped back almost as bad as it was in Feb before we started anything, and thats really frustrating, tho apparently not uncommon.
We've let both Alpine and the school district know that Dominic will be staying at Alpine at least through May '10. We'll probably try to manage to keep him there through August, actually, to get the structure over the summer. Really just depends on how he's doing. The supervisor and early childhood office director asked for permission to go observe him at Alpine, so that they could ensure coordination of care, or something to that effect. I am allowing it because I want to make sure that nothing the school does negates the work that Alpine, and we, have done. For example, his IEP references sensory breaks when he's overwhelmed. So, a sensory activity he loves is the water table. If he gets all fidgity and doesn't follow isntructions, they let him go play in the water. This means they're essentially reinforcing his bad behavior. we'll be requesting that sensory breaks only be used if he a. verbally asks for one (he's been doing that at Alpine), or b. to reinforce good behavior. He will more than likely not be in the same preschool classroom as he was last year due to staffing issues, and the fact that due to Alpine, he'll need to be in a morning class instead of an evening class.
Dominic's still having behavior issues w/the chelation, so after 5 doses, we've decided to stop for a couple of weeks and get it settled back down, then will resume. Very slowly. His focus has slipped back almost as bad as it was in Feb before we started anything, and thats really frustrating, tho apparently not uncommon.
We've let both Alpine and the school district know that Dominic will be staying at Alpine at least through May '10. We'll probably try to manage to keep him there through August, actually, to get the structure over the summer. Really just depends on how he's doing. The supervisor and early childhood office director asked for permission to go observe him at Alpine, so that they could ensure coordination of care, or something to that effect. I am allowing it because I want to make sure that nothing the school does negates the work that Alpine, and we, have done. For example, his IEP references sensory breaks when he's overwhelmed. So, a sensory activity he loves is the water table. If he gets all fidgity and doesn't follow isntructions, they let him go play in the water. This means they're essentially reinforcing his bad behavior. we'll be requesting that sensory breaks only be used if he a. verbally asks for one (he's been doing that at Alpine), or b. to reinforce good behavior. He will more than likely not be in the same preschool classroom as he was last year due to staffing issues, and the fact that due to Alpine, he'll need to be in a morning class instead of an evening class.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
on babysitters....
We don't go out much.... after a babysitter, dinner, and a movie, a night out is $100 a pop. WE try really hard to do it once a month, but we didn't go at all in June. Last night we went out - saw Harry Potter, had a nice sushi dinner. Our babysitter has watched Dominic off and on for a number of years, so she knew him preregression and now post. In Feb, she was the one that told us it was a different kid a month into the GFCF diet.
So, last night, he actually played with her - and he picked out the Foot Book for her to read to him, and she was very impressed with the improvements in comparison to where he was in Feb.
We see him every day, and while we think he's getting better, its always nice to have independent reinforcement.
We're 3 doses into chelation, he's definately high energy. We'll see if the stomach thing continues with any predictablity. Chelation is reputed to stir up yeast issues.
So, last night, he actually played with her - and he picked out the Foot Book for her to read to him, and she was very impressed with the improvements in comparison to where he was in Feb.
We see him every day, and while we think he's getting better, its always nice to have independent reinforcement.
We're 3 doses into chelation, he's definately high energy. We'll see if the stomach thing continues with any predictablity. Chelation is reputed to stir up yeast issues.
Friday, July 17, 2009
this and that
We got the June report from Alpine yesterday, and its got all kind of stuff tracked in a pretty form, with tables and charts to boot. Appeals to my analytical side. And backs up what we're saying that he's doing so well there.
Today there wasn't school, they're doing an in service, which turned out to be a good thing becuase he's got a bit of a stomach bug - so at least we didn't have to miss a day.
Please keep asking how we're doing this. Frankly, I have no idea. We just are. And yes, theres a lot of stress. I caught this article today and it could've come out of my own mouth. Go read it. Its worth it.
Today there wasn't school, they're doing an in service, which turned out to be a good thing becuase he's got a bit of a stomach bug - so at least we didn't have to miss a day.
Please keep asking how we're doing this. Frankly, I have no idea. We just are. And yes, theres a lot of stress. I caught this article today and it could've come out of my own mouth. Go read it. Its worth it.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
And thats an interesting article on VAccines/ Autism
Go read it:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/07/an-overview-of-the-fourteen-vaccine-studies.html#more
This paragraph is pertinent to us:
• Only 1 study used children from the US exclusively .
This study found 20% of the children with Autism they looked at did indeed regress into Autism in this order: MMR-GI Disturbance-Autism, but concludes because the other 80% did so in a different order such as GI Disturbance-MMR-Autism, the MMR isn’t a problem. It also replicated the findings of Dr. Wakefield and found MMR vaccine strain Measles Virus RNA in the small intestine of one child with Autism.
Dominic had GI Disturbance-MMR-Autism.....
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/07/an-overview-of-the-fourteen-vaccine-studies.html#more
This paragraph is pertinent to us:
• Only 1 study used children from the US exclusively .
This study found 20% of the children with Autism they looked at did indeed regress into Autism in this order: MMR-GI Disturbance-Autism, but concludes because the other 80% did so in a different order such as GI Disturbance-MMR-Autism, the MMR isn’t a problem. It also replicated the findings of Dr. Wakefield and found MMR vaccine strain Measles Virus RNA in the small intestine of one child with Autism.
Dominic had GI Disturbance-MMR-Autism.....
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Rollercoaster, some up some down
One of the things we were warned would happen when we chelated was that Dominic's bad behaviors would flare up. They are. He's definately less focus'ed with his am therapist and at Alpine. He's doing more spit play which is gross, he's doing some hand flapping and toe walking (which we think is also partially a result of peer imitiation since he's never really done that before). They're worst from about 7-30 hours after the chelation dose. Since we're doing the dose roughly every 48 hrs, that doesn't leave a lot of time that he's not having behaviors. We'll see how he does this weekend when we go 72hrs between. Fortunately its only for a month that we're doing this.
On the bright side, his ESY therapist today commented that in the 8 years she's done aba therapy w/autistic kids, she's never had one that played appropriately with toys like Dominic does. Yes, he carries and lines up, but he also drives his trucks, he puts cars inside the semi, etc etc. So he plays appropriately. Right now he and his semi truck are having a fantastic time inside a large cardboard box. So we have imaginative play, too.
On the bright side, his ESY therapist today commented that in the 8 years she's done aba therapy w/autistic kids, she's never had one that played appropriately with toys like Dominic does. Yes, he carries and lines up, but he also drives his trucks, he puts cars inside the semi, etc etc. So he plays appropriately. Right now he and his semi truck are having a fantastic time inside a large cardboard box. So we have imaginative play, too.
Monday, July 13, 2009
first chelation dose is today.
And its been a really frustrating week. He's started acting out by peeing and pooping everywhere but the toilet - not accidents, because he's taking off his pants to do it. The therapist says that this is a control/defiance behavior - we've got such tight control over his therapy, and so much is being asked of him that he is consciously or unconsciously acting out in one of the few ways left to him by peeing or pooping outside or on the carpets inside. Which means that we have to take control back over that, and put him back on a potty training type schedule where we MAKE him go every hour or so.
I'm tired.
I'm tired.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
We've been in a holding pattern....
But I wanted to update the blog, so here goes...
Dominic's doing good at Alpine. Nothing earth shattering is happening, but we are seeing a lot more frustration on his part because he's trying harder to communicate and we're just not understanding what he wants. Some days it seems like his receptive language (eg, understanding and following in struction) is starting to do better. At MIL's yesterday, she could tell a difference in his behavior from the last time she saw him, which was about 2 weeks ago - he was calmer, listening better, playing more appropriately with his toys, and sat really still for his haircut (I only had to hold his head for a tiny bit of it).
I'm keeping very close track of his supplements, and doing quick updates daily in an excel spreadsheet of specific things (yes, I'm tracking poop, but also sleep, behavior, and skin issues). Nothing remarkable has shown up with the most recent tweaking of supplementation, aside from Milk Thistle constipating him, so we reduced the dose by half. We start him on a chelation round tomorrow, so will log what we see. I've been warned that his behaviors will increase while he chelates, but so far he hasn't followed any of the normal side effects kids have from these supplements, so we'll see.
We're keeping our heads above water, barely, and are really grateful to those of you who've made contributions towards his therapy, every little bit helps so much. We've now got a best case scenario, a couple of in the middle back up plans, and a worst case scenario for making sure he can get therapy from Alpine as long as he needs it. Best case is of course, insurance kicks in. Worst case is we empty retirement funds and take the tax hit. Everything seems to hinge on what insurance will do, and we have submitted June's invoice, but it hasn't appeared on the insurance webpage yet - I expect it'll appear in the next week or so. Then they have 30 days to make a decision.
Dominic's doing good at Alpine. Nothing earth shattering is happening, but we are seeing a lot more frustration on his part because he's trying harder to communicate and we're just not understanding what he wants. Some days it seems like his receptive language (eg, understanding and following in struction) is starting to do better. At MIL's yesterday, she could tell a difference in his behavior from the last time she saw him, which was about 2 weeks ago - he was calmer, listening better, playing more appropriately with his toys, and sat really still for his haircut (I only had to hold his head for a tiny bit of it).
I'm keeping very close track of his supplements, and doing quick updates daily in an excel spreadsheet of specific things (yes, I'm tracking poop, but also sleep, behavior, and skin issues). Nothing remarkable has shown up with the most recent tweaking of supplementation, aside from Milk Thistle constipating him, so we reduced the dose by half. We start him on a chelation round tomorrow, so will log what we see. I've been warned that his behaviors will increase while he chelates, but so far he hasn't followed any of the normal side effects kids have from these supplements, so we'll see.
We're keeping our heads above water, barely, and are really grateful to those of you who've made contributions towards his therapy, every little bit helps so much. We've now got a best case scenario, a couple of in the middle back up plans, and a worst case scenario for making sure he can get therapy from Alpine as long as he needs it. Best case is of course, insurance kicks in. Worst case is we empty retirement funds and take the tax hit. Everything seems to hinge on what insurance will do, and we have submitted June's invoice, but it hasn't appeared on the insurance webpage yet - I expect it'll appear in the next week or so. Then they have 30 days to make a decision.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sunglasses and party blowers oh my
One of Dominic's classmates at Alpine had a little birthday party yesterday during snack time...
Here're a couple of photos from the fun. The first one has good eye contact thru the sunglasses w/the person holding the camera
Here're a couple of photos from the fun. The first one has good eye contact thru the sunglasses w/the person holding the camera
up/down day
The past couple of days have been odd. Dominic was completely unfocused yesterday morning for his morning therapy, and we were starting to thing maybe we were having a backslide, but then he had an amazing afternoon session at Alpine - the director came out to tell me that when he first arrived, he was playing on the floor with some cars (a favorite activity) and she called out to him from the door "Hi Dominic". He stopped what he was doing, turned and looked at her - gave great eye contact - and then when to his chair and sat down.
Doesn't seem like much, but when you think about it he:
- was playing appropriately with toys
- HEARD her say hi Dominic, on the first time (he's been having auditory processing issues)
- Responded to his name (first time he's done that for them, but for me at home I can call his name and he'll come running)
- Made good eye contact independently (also huge)
- Knew that he needed to go to his chair to work, and that he would get tickles for doing so.
Doesn't seem like much, but when you think about it he:
- was playing appropriately with toys
- HEARD her say hi Dominic, on the first time (he's been having auditory processing issues)
- Responded to his name (first time he's done that for them, but for me at home I can call his name and he'll come running)
- Made good eye contact independently (also huge)
- Knew that he needed to go to his chair to work, and that he would get tickles for doing so.
Monday, July 6, 2009
i think he needs a fish tank....
So, while we were shopping yesterday, at Safeway, Dominic got all excited over the soft soap handsoap dispenser that has a fish looking thing in it. I can't find a picture online, but its just a handsoap thing with an aquarium effect. He carried that around all day yesterday.
FAst forward to this mornings therapy at home. One of the things he was doing was 3d to 2d matching - there's a picture that he has to place 3d figures on in the right spots. One of the pictures was ocean life... with a crab, lobster, fish, etc. He took the little fish, and tried to put it in the soap dispenser so that the fish inside the soap dispenser would have a friend.
Kiddo likes animals.
However we have a menagerie and i'm not good with fish, so i think he's going to have to skip the whole fish tank thing.
FAst forward to this mornings therapy at home. One of the things he was doing was 3d to 2d matching - there's a picture that he has to place 3d figures on in the right spots. One of the pictures was ocean life... with a crab, lobster, fish, etc. He took the little fish, and tried to put it in the soap dispenser so that the fish inside the soap dispenser would have a friend.
Kiddo likes animals.
However we have a menagerie and i'm not good with fish, so i think he's going to have to skip the whole fish tank thing.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
4th of July party
Dominic did really well at the annual 4th of July party at Jen and Mikes. Pics to come (forgot the camera, waiting for them to be emailed), but he interacted Okay with the other kids - no fighting, no hitting, shared te toys. Spent most of the party playing with Jen's outdoor pond / fish net thingy, and we were SO thrilled when he came running saying "car, car" and dragged me over to the pond to fish it out for him INSTEAD of jumping in (very shallow pond). He also had a ball climbing the tree and playing with the dogs.
Well, he clearly understands reinforcers.
So, our home therapist was here this morning, and said to Dominic "Sit down". then she sat to show him. He looked at her with a funny look on his face, leaned down to the bowl of potato chips (reinforcer du Jour) and put one in her mouth.
just funny.
Anyway, with the right motivator, he's doing really well - i got his entire alphabet out of him not once, but twice (almost all imitation, but still...) this morning with being swung around in the sheet as the immediate reinforcer. We've also got the piggyback game going, where he'll get to ride piggy back with me only going when he says what we're asking him to. immediate reinforcer is like 5 steps forward. he LOVES it.
just funny.
Anyway, with the right motivator, he's doing really well - i got his entire alphabet out of him not once, but twice (almost all imitation, but still...) this morning with being swung around in the sheet as the immediate reinforcer. We've also got the piggyback game going, where he'll get to ride piggy back with me only going when he says what we're asking him to. immediate reinforcer is like 5 steps forward. he LOVES it.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
good news / bad news
Bad news first - the ST yearly eval came back and his scores were, gulp, 1 year 6 months for expressive and receptive language. The eval was done the first week in June, so the first week at Alpine
BUT - the ST was blown away by how well he's been doing since. she see's great improvement. When I told her that unless I can sway the insurance (and frankly, i'm tired of fighting for ST), we run out of our $2500 allotment in 4 more visits and we are then done for the year, she completely agreed that if it was a choice, we needed to leave him at Alpine.
Good news - the OT said he made great strides in just one week on the fine motor skill of cutting with scissors. Plus, he verbally, independently asked for the swing as soon as they went into the OT room.
She agrees as well, that in the full year he was getting services on a school district IEP she saw no real progress, but in the 4 weeks we've had him at Alpine getting ABA, she's seen huge strides. We're in the right place.
Related note, the Alpine insurance bill went to our insurance carrier today. It should show up online as received in 7 ish days (thats what its been running lately), then they have 30 days to make a payment decision. Fingers crossed we know something by early August. Fingers crossed that they pony up and pay the out of network 70%. We have money set aside for paying out of pocket August 1 and are working on September - it would sure make it last a lot longer if insurance paid. Huge thank you's to those of you who've paypal'd and send donations to Alpine - it really does add up. If you paypall'ed and would prefer to do a tax deductible donation to Alpine - they are allowing directed donations, you send them a letter designating you want the check going to Dominic Whitcomb Valdez's account, and enclose a check. They are thrilled to do that for us.
BUT - the ST was blown away by how well he's been doing since. she see's great improvement. When I told her that unless I can sway the insurance (and frankly, i'm tired of fighting for ST), we run out of our $2500 allotment in 4 more visits and we are then done for the year, she completely agreed that if it was a choice, we needed to leave him at Alpine.
Good news - the OT said he made great strides in just one week on the fine motor skill of cutting with scissors. Plus, he verbally, independently asked for the swing as soon as they went into the OT room.
She agrees as well, that in the full year he was getting services on a school district IEP she saw no real progress, but in the 4 weeks we've had him at Alpine getting ABA, she's seen huge strides. We're in the right place.
Related note, the Alpine insurance bill went to our insurance carrier today. It should show up online as received in 7 ish days (thats what its been running lately), then they have 30 days to make a payment decision. Fingers crossed we know something by early August. Fingers crossed that they pony up and pay the out of network 70%. We have money set aside for paying out of pocket August 1 and are working on September - it would sure make it last a lot longer if insurance paid. Huge thank you's to those of you who've paypal'd and send donations to Alpine - it really does add up. If you paypall'ed and would prefer to do a tax deductible donation to Alpine - they are allowing directed donations, you send them a letter designating you want the check going to Dominic Whitcomb Valdez's account, and enclose a check. They are thrilled to do that for us.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
On Imaginative play
We've been seeing an upsurge in Dominic's imaginative play, which is FANTASTIC given that it was little to nothing for many months.
This first picture is his elephant getting a bath. Its hard to see, but there's water in there. The Elephant, bowl and water and all, goes with him to dinner, to the bath tub, and sits on his toybox while he sleeps.
Beside the elephant is the Sheep-on-a-Motorcycle. When we went to Safeway on Saturday, it was just for a couple of things, and so I let Dominic walk (normally, he's in the cart so he doesn't get into trouble), and as we were getting ready to leave, he pulled me down the toy aisle, saying CARS CARS and very deliberately picked out this motorcycle. Sometime Saturday evening, he brought it to me with the sheep riding it. And thats how its been since.
Closeup of the sheep on the motorcycle. No idea how this kid decided the sheep needed to ride the motorcycle, but its showing definate independent imaginative things at work. which we are THRILLED about.
And this is the chicken. I was getting ready to throw away the box when he took it out of my hand, and said FIXIT. so i taped the lid down, and after a while of wearing it on his head, the chicken started living in it. This one also went to bed with him for a few nights, etc.
Then there are a plethora of small toys with strings tied around their necks so they can go for walks - dinosaur, elephant, mulitple horses, and a small stuffed dog.
These are just little things, I know, but they are very exciting. Our morning therapist has said that she's got autistic kids who not only would not put a sheep on a bike, they wouldn't roll the bike around on its wheels or put a person on the bike.
This first picture is his elephant getting a bath. Its hard to see, but there's water in there. The Elephant, bowl and water and all, goes with him to dinner, to the bath tub, and sits on his toybox while he sleeps.
Beside the elephant is the Sheep-on-a-Motorcycle. When we went to Safeway on Saturday, it was just for a couple of things, and so I let Dominic walk (normally, he's in the cart so he doesn't get into trouble), and as we were getting ready to leave, he pulled me down the toy aisle, saying CARS CARS and very deliberately picked out this motorcycle. Sometime Saturday evening, he brought it to me with the sheep riding it. And thats how its been since.
Closeup of the sheep on the motorcycle. No idea how this kid decided the sheep needed to ride the motorcycle, but its showing definate independent imaginative things at work. which we are THRILLED about.
And this is the chicken. I was getting ready to throw away the box when he took it out of my hand, and said FIXIT. so i taped the lid down, and after a while of wearing it on his head, the chicken started living in it. This one also went to bed with him for a few nights, etc.
Then there are a plethora of small toys with strings tied around their necks so they can go for walks - dinosaur, elephant, mulitple horses, and a small stuffed dog.
These are just little things, I know, but they are very exciting. Our morning therapist has said that she's got autistic kids who not only would not put a sheep on a bike, they wouldn't roll the bike around on its wheels or put a person on the bike.
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