Speech Therapy

Well this video is just playing. But look how cute he is!!

Speech Therapy

Jason had speech on Tuesday. Still working on a lot, but he REALLY likes the marble maze.

Speech Therapy

I had to get Jason to speech therapy by 8:00am. This morning was somewhat unsuccessful so I got there about 8:15am. Gotta love my ability to get moving in the morning. Last week the speech therapist talked about finding something that Jason could see the sound waves. See that something happens when we speak. He will sometimes move his lips similar to what Greg and I are doing, but no sound comes out. I discussed this with my brother Jeff, a few weeks ago. He suggested an oscillator. This wasn't exactly what I needed, but it led me to this! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/led-audio-spectrum/id396083500?mt=8

When I got to speech and Jason was inside of the barrel, I pulled it out to show the speech therapist. He was so excited, he told me he would probably have an iPad by next week. Greg would say "AAAAAAA" and point to the iPad. After that if Jason would make some kind of noise that remotely resembled the sound and was looking at the iPad, Greg and I clapped and cheered. I think the visual clues will be a benefit for Jason.

Jason was getting frustrated by the fact that we wouldn't let him have the iPad so I had to put it away for the very end of the appointment. Jason is really responding to "Ready, Set, GO!" It was fun to see him actually PLAYING with cars!!!

Tuesday's Craziness

Tuesday morning I had a doctors appointment for Jason. Just a random check up. On the way to the office he started having an asthma attack. By the time we actually got into see Lisa, he was pretty wheezy! So she listened to his lunges, and looked at his ears. One of his ears was pretty red, and then of course with the lungs thing. So first thing first a quick steroid shot, second a good dose of Albuterol with the Nebulizer. Then of course she wrote us a prescription for an antibiotic. We discussed a few other things, but all and all that was about it.

Then there was Speech and OT. These two appointments were back to back. It was a bit exhausting! I'm enjoying this OT, not that I didn't like Julia. However, I think Julia is way on overload!! Poor Thing!!

I recorded a bunch of the OT stuff. I'm still not 100% sure about what the purpose here is. Can you tell I'm on overload as well? He was acting REALLY tired! I'm not sure why, but I think he needs a bed of the plastic balls. I swear he could totally fall asleep in it.

The idea is to have him do an obstacle course. Make him think. The blocks are a visual way for him to know when he's finished. ie: When all the blocks are in the tube he's finished.

I think he finally woke up but he was such a silly kid!

Then we moved into another room, and worked on his fine motor skills. I think he enjoyed every one of the activities.

I love how he looks at the box every now and again, to see how many more he gets to do.

It's amazing how tired my three year old was for this appointment.

This was his favorite by far! I need to get 10 of these pens!!!

After all that was speech and by that time Jason was done cooperating. Greg tried to get him to say "IN" and "OUT". He put him in the barrel, and would try and get any sign that he wanted out. But Jason being Jason would just shimmy his way out of the barrel. We'll keep working, but I'm not sure we'll be seeing big steps in progress anytime soon......

Speech Therapy

Jason had Speech Therapy yesterday. He has a new therapist and he isn't sure what to think of him. We'll see how things work out!!!

Speech Therapy

Jason had his second round of Speech Therapy. I really like Lanie. She is so good with Jason!! She's also good with working with my HEAVY boy! =)



My brother is going to love that Jason likes to bowl!!





She suggested Heavy work for Jason. That will help him to get himself centered before he sits down to work.



We worked on the PECS and because he does it at school he was an old pro. I'm going to establish a couple of pictures to start him communicating. Popsicle and Cheetos. We'll see if we can get him moving!!

Speech Therapy

Jason went to speech therapy on Thursday. It was fabulous once again. We started out our visit with the gym. She took one look at Jason and new he needed to get some energy out. She had a picture strip and discussed his needs with me as we went along. He started out on a swing and then went to the ball pit.

She said she will probably use the ball pit as his reward next time, along with Kit Kats.

She had some suggestions for sleep aids, and how to get him to settle down.

Lycra seems to be a good material for Autistic children. So I'm going to have to find some good compression clothes. They also sell Lycra sheet for the bed. Again she suggested this to help him sleep. I'm excited to work with Lanie. I think she will help us a lot.

On a side note. Jason said "Bye, bye" and waved at Grandma and Grandpas Siddoway. He did it twice. Maybe we'll be able to continue this trend!!!!

Speech Therapy Evaluation

Oh My WORD!!!! That was AWFUL!

Ok, well it was more like Jason was AWFUL!

This was Jason at his worst. He even threw a fit and tried to hit me when I said no. You should have seen the look on the speech therapists face. It was, "What am I getting myself into????"

Basically it was the basic speech evaluation, which is close to none right now. She played with Jason long enough for me to fill out the paper work, but as soon as I was done she jumped up and really look flabbergasted. I told her this would be the perfect time for the O.T. to see him. She looked relieved and said, "Oh........you have another evaluation with the O.T.? That would be a REALLY good idea."

I had to snap pictures every once in a while because if I didn't find it funny I would have pulled my hair out.

Jason fell in the garbage can....??????

Finally I told Samantha she could watch a movie on the IPad if Jason would watch it too.
If we are doing this once a week, Samantha is going to need to stay home. =)