2/5/09 Fantastic News & Video

sorry about the quality of the video as I had to convert it to upload and the quality sufferred a bit. But as you can see, Tyler is riding a bike and steering very well! At the times you see him stop or get distracted, it's when he's going by the windows in the school. The windows also distract him when we pick him up frmo school. he loves to look out big windows!

We had a meeting with Tyler's teacher today to go over Tyler's progress towards his IEP goals as well as getting her general feedback as to how he's doing and everything was great! I think the best piece of news we got was how much progress he's made in such a short time and how quickly he picks up on things which is a good indicator of how well he'll progress in the future. There was also some good news on the speech pathologist front, i don't have all the details but in general they are getting a new speech pathologist but she was already working with the kids in other avenues and she's considerd an expert in many areas so this is really gonna be a bonus for Tyler. I'll write more some other time when I have more info.

In today's meeting, the teacher mentioned that she's noticed that Tyler's sounds/babbling has descreased. I said it was funny she mentioned it cause I had just written that in his blog. But she confirmed my suspicions that it's very common when a child picks up a new skill, some of their old skills may go away for a while. Also, eh's learning that signing and gestures are getting him what he wants so they are reinforcing. I did talk with her about how to know when we can start to hold out for specific sounds for things as well as signs as to push it to the next level, this is something that we'll talk about to his new speech path as well. Which brings me to the next pieces of news. SO EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TYLER TALKED TODAY! The only time he's ever said any distinguished word other than mama and dada (which is also not so clear lately) was when he repeated I love you on video which was only a repetition, not somethign that had meaning and it wasn't very clear. Today.. he said "get in" twice in a row!! He was with one of the paraproffessinoals and htey were standing by the swing and he said, get in.. Oh.. I tear up thinking about it. WOO HOOOO... So now we want to really reinforce that phrase so we'll be trying to get him to say it anytime he wants to get into anything and maybe we can even get him to say "put in" as I know he can make the "pu" sound. Oh........so weird i Just talked about hwo badly I wanted him to be able to talk. yeah tyler. They also said he was really making a lot of sounds today. Our mtg with the teacher was right after we dropped Tyler off so it's almost that he knew we were talking abouth im and saying how his speech has dropped off and how much we want to up the ante on speech and get him talking. YEAH TYler!