14 Feb 2012, 7:44 pm
Sooo....how's it going? Or shouldn't we ask?
We've concluded my DS has some sensory issue about toileting, as he is mostly trained but still prefers to wet his trousers than use the toilet sometimes. It has been suggested he likes the feeling of a full bladder, which is a bit hard to do anything about!
It's going I guess...haven't really gotten very far yet. We put him on the toilet if he starts grunting and he's pooped in the toilet from that, though I am not sure if this counts.
14 Feb 2012, 7:48 pm
14 Feb 2012, 10:38 pm
Sooo....how's it going? Or shouldn't we ask?
We've concluded my DS has some sensory issue about toileting, as he is mostly trained but still prefers to wet his trousers than use the toilet sometimes. It has been suggested he likes the feeling of a full bladder, which is a bit hard to do anything about!
It's going I guess...haven't really gotten very far yet. We put him on the toilet if he starts grunting and he's pooped in the toilet from that, though I am not sure if this counts.
I would count it. At least he's not trying to avoid the potty.
My younger son still has to be reminded to poop in the potty, but he'll at least do it now instead of holding it in when someone makes him go to the bathroom. I think that some kids have to remain on a potty schedule a long time. I keep telling him that when he's in kindergarten, no one is going to remind him to sit on the potty. Thank goodness he starts in 2013.
The ABA therapist will be back tomorrow after a long vacation, so I'll have her keep working with my younger son on the potty thing.
15 Feb 2012, 10:57 pm
16 Feb 2012, 5:04 am
First week of school for my boy last week and it has gone fantastically and he is loving it. In retrospect Kindergarten prior to that has not really been that great, he was OK there, but he gets a lot more out of being in the special needs unit where he is now, where they can cater to him best. He gets to do a lot of enjoyable things there too, swimming three days a week, horse riding once a week!
Anyway, one interesting thing is the teachers have been very impressed at how compliant and settled he is in the environment, lots of things like sitting at a table when he's requested, making eye contact, being able to self regulate. These things collectively make him 'available' for learning, and they were developed in part through his ABA programme and other work we have put in with him over the last 2 years.
We have schemed and cobbled things together so that our main therapist now works in the unit as his teacher aide (i.e. funded by the Govt) and also does ABA with him there in that environment and follows the programme and goals set by the ABA lead that we privately pay for. The head of the SN is all for it after coming and seeing him doing ABA at our house, i.e. seeing what it really entails.
He also got to go to his mainstream i.e. normal class, although he is in the SN unit, all the kids in there (14 kids in the unit with a range of disabilities) have a regular class they belong to, some of them go to the mainstream class to do some of their work. The school makes a big effort to get the other students to understand and be inclusive of the kids, and its part of what they are taught and evidently works really well.
Couldn't be happier for now 
16 Feb 2012, 6:53 am
Anyway, one interesting thing is the teachers have been very impressed at how compliant and settled he is in the environment, lots of things like sitting at a table when he's requested, making eye contact, being able to self regulate. These things collectively make him 'available' for learning, and they were developed in part through his ABA programme and other work we have put in with him over the last 2 years.
We have schemed and cobbled things together so that our main therapist now works in the unit as his teacher aide (i.e. funded by the Govt) and also does ABA with him there in that environment and follows the programme and goals set by the ABA lead that we privately pay for. The head of the SN is all for it after coming and seeing him doing ABA at our house, i.e. seeing what it really entails.
He also got to go to his mainstream i.e. normal class, although he is in the SN unit, all the kids in there (14 kids in the unit with a range of disabilities) have a regular class they belong to, some of them go to the mainstream class to do some of their work. The school makes a big effort to get the other students to understand and be inclusive of the kids, and its part of what they are taught and evidently works really well.
Couldn't be happier for now
16 Feb 2012, 7:21 am
16 Feb 2012, 7:23 am
Anyway, one interesting thing is the teachers have been very impressed at how compliant and settled he is in the environment, lots of things like sitting at a table when he's requested, making eye contact, being able to self regulate. These things collectively make him 'available' for learning, and they were developed in part through his ABA programme and other work we have put in with him over the last 2 years.
We have schemed and cobbled things together so that our main therapist now works in the unit as his teacher aide (i.e. funded by the Govt) and also does ABA with him there in that environment and follows the programme and goals set by the ABA lead that we privately pay for. The head of the SN is all for it after coming and seeing him doing ABA at our house, i.e. seeing what it really entails.
He also got to go to his mainstream i.e. normal class, although he is in the SN unit, all the kids in there (14 kids in the unit with a range of disabilities) have a regular class they belong to, some of them go to the mainstream class to do some of their work. The school makes a big effort to get the other students to understand and be inclusive of the kids, and its part of what they are taught and evidently works really well.
Couldn't be happier for now
That is a great accomplishment!
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