Coming off of a great halloween, we've continued our success this week. It has been a busy one (aren't they all?). B has been having lots of assessments conducted this week since our next 6 month review is coming up. Things are looking good. He mastered the ELM (stands for early learning measurement, I think)! That is one that the kiddos in the original Lovaas study had to have mastered by 3.5 years old in order to attain best outcome. We're just behind that but it's still good. He overall has been testing really well all week. It's exciting to watch. He has improved in so many areas and yet still obviously struggles. I watched him scribble circles every time he was asked to imitate drawing a horizontal or vertical line. This despite the fact that we have practiced this for months. He has grown by leaps and bounds though in so many areas. Today, we did the 3rd installment of his video assessment with me. The first one - he cried the entire 30 minutes. Last time, he was much improved but was off in his own world a lot of the time. Today, he complied unbelievably well with playing with me and it was just such an obvious improvement! He is a changed boy.
On wednesday, he had his last afternoon off for a while. We took him for a haircut and he was a total Rock Star with it. So we followed it with a trip to Chuck E. Cheese which he LOVED. Also this week, we've gone back to a more hard-core approach for potty training since we are struggling with #2. I'm happy to say that he hasn't had an accident since Monday. All in all, a very busy but very great week for us!! Tomorrow morning, I go to a meeting about funding. I'm not excited to hear what that's all about. Please, please, please don't let anything happen to our funding. This boy NEEDS it and is thriving from it!
Pictures below are post-haircut (she put in product which looked adorable but isn't exactly realistic) and smiling from ear-to-ear at Chuck E. Cheese.
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