Update on AX - 21 May 09

It has been months now since I put something here. We are occupied on a daily basis when our daughter was hospitalized for 9 days for diabetes. She was 22 months old that time. She is doing fine as of the moment but blood sugar level has been a day to day struggle. We need to maintain the level and sometimes it is really freaking hard especially when she does not want to eat or will just let the food rot inside her mouth.

Anyway, I was able to fight for or insist that AX be put in mainstream class for Language (meaning, nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, etc...). It was hard because we asked the principal to let AX do trial period for Language. The ESE Specialist said that he was doing pretty bad. She judged him on the basis of 1 trial period (30 minutes or less) when AX should have gone 3X (1 per week - that is all we were allowed; yet they only put him there 1x) to Language mainstreaming since it was started in the 2nd week of April 2009. We bombarded her for that because I cannot seem to fathom how come the school and the people who are supposed to know about autism have low regards for disabled students they are handling. We did a classroom observation on 13 May 2009 in the Language mainstreaming. Axell did very, very good. He even went to the board and put the correct answer. The autism coach and the classroom teacher were somehow petrified when Axell went to the board. I saw in it on their faces. Tthe lesson was about the articles A and AN (an apple, a book). Axell put the correct answer in the sentence. Nonetheless, am thankful that they are still trying. I just hope they can maintain the trust to every students with autism - They can do it. They just have some processing issues at times but they can do it.

AX is still having a hard time in comprehension but am still very positive he/we will get there soon. He needs to get there not because we want to. He needs it since he is growing up and he has to express himself, learn more of the world and be able to maintain independence. I am still teaching him to make a sentence and am hoping this summer he will be able to do it more and more. He had done some sentences before. I asked him, "What is this?" He said and put, "It is an apple."

I will continue later.