6/16/09

Tyler did pretty good today. He and I were both a little intimidated by all the people in the room. It's a rather short (depth wise) room with very high stadium seating and we were being videoed and shown on a huge screen in the front of the room just behind us. Anyway, Tyler woke up with a runny nose so he wasn't quite feeling 100% and was a bit more irritable today than normal, so when considering that he did very well. he tolerated the "birthday party" well when he clearly wanted to get down and occasionally gritted his teeth at Susan. He had to sit for the party and play with the GFCF playdoh which was supposed to be the cake. He did participate in the putting the "candles" in though event hough he wasnt' happy about it. I gave him lots of squeezes and let him know it would just be a few more minutes. he also initiated a few signs which was nice. all and all she said that he did better than she had expected (she hadn't' watched his last ADOS but planned to watch the video of it after this session as to not alter her expectations) and as long as people learned from the session than it's a success! He really liked the balloon part and was some what interested in the bubbles. I'm really glad we did our practice session so he was familiar with the room and with her, it made quite a difference adding all those people in the room. Steve and Tyler have a routine where Tyler lays down and signs swing and Steve swings him by his legs in the air and Tyler loves it, he requested that a few times today and I did it a couple of times to help him stay regulated and engaged with the activities. we also played "dog" at one point to get him happy again. Even though he was frustrated today he never got overly upset where he was crying or went to bang his head or anything so again compared to where we used to be (cause he was asked to do some not fun/not interesting things) he's really come a long way.

So we said goodbye to the parent support group for the summer, it will start back up in the fall when school starts back up. Tyler goes back to preschool after the 4th of July holiday, although this time it's for 3 days a week instead of 5.