We’re having a great week, and here’re some quick examples
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On Tuesday, when I picked Dominic up from Camp, they
were outside at the park that is adjacent to the YMCA and he saw me park. He stayed in line, holding hands with a little
girl (I think they were buddied up) instead of running towards me.
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On Wednesday, when I picked him up, they’d gone on a
field trip to Cottonwood
Creek Park
(in town) for a “field day”, and the counselors told me he particularly liked
the water balloon station. (imagine that)
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Dominic has been on a echolalia trip the last couple of
weeks. Most of what his verbals are
something he repeats from what he hears you say. However – we are noticing that his MLU (mean
length of utterance) for those echoic statements are getting longer AND the
actual words he’s repeating are getting more varied. So last night as I was getting him ready for
bed, I had just given the dog a bath. I
told Dominic to come in the bathroom because “now its your turn”. And he looked in the mirror at himself and
said “its my turn”. He used the proper
pronoun instead of echoing. I know that this seems small, but its really
actually HUGE. Rod was floored when I
told him.
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This morning, when Rod dropped him at the Y Camp,
Dominic ran in, hung his backpack up and started walking and talking with a
little girl. (different little girl than
Tuesday). Rod couldn’t hear what he
said, but Dominic was clearly initiating interaction. Very pleased by this.
He’s actually taking a week off from camp next week because
my parents will be visiting us for a few days, so we’ll see how that little
shift in routine does when he starts back up the 8th. I don’t think
there’ll be any issues.
We are so pleased that what we hoped he would work on this
summer with the Y camp – the social piece – is actually happening. We plan to do it again next year.
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