Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Back to school - 20 Jan 09
AX did not want to wake up this morning. I bet, he is regaining back his energy as he did not sleep Sunday night (18 Jan 09). He was up until 1:30AM EST and I saw him he was still wide awake. I have to raise my voice to tell him that he has to go to bed and sleep. After 15 minutes or so, he was sleeping soundly. However, he must have been restless because he was awake before 7AM Monday (19 Jan 09). He went straight to his N64 console and asked for his game, "I want game."
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Updates on AX - 18 January 2009
It has been a while since I posted here. I simply lost track of it. I keep updates in my e-mail address and I have videos. He has hundreds of videos in www.youtube.com.
He has normal cognitive skills according to his psychological test given by the school in the 3rd to 4th quarter of 2008. This is a good news. I was a bit elated but somehow still felt bad because the psychologist chose him to remain in the autism cluster. He is mainstreamed in Math. He does well in that subject. He has a good teacher. Her name is Ms. Contento. Even in problem solving, he is now understanding that there are certain terms he needs to know if he will use addition or subtraction. He is doing well in multiplication although he has not memorized the multiplication table yet. He knows the basic in performing multiplication say, 3 x 4, he has to make/add 3 fours. I thought I could teach him division this long vacation from school in December 2008 but we taught him more of reading comprehension. He needs that badly.
There is a 4-day vacation again from school and I keep wondering why schools in the United States opt for too many vacation days.
He has normal cognitive skills according to his psychological test given by the school in the 3rd to 4th quarter of 2008. This is a good news. I was a bit elated but somehow still felt bad because the psychologist chose him to remain in the autism cluster. He is mainstreamed in Math. He does well in that subject. He has a good teacher. Her name is Ms. Contento. Even in problem solving, he is now understanding that there are certain terms he needs to know if he will use addition or subtraction. He is doing well in multiplication although he has not memorized the multiplication table yet. He knows the basic in performing multiplication say, 3 x 4, he has to make/add 3 fours. I thought I could teach him division this long vacation from school in December 2008 but we taught him more of reading comprehension. He needs that badly.
There is a 4-day vacation again from school and I keep wondering why schools in the United States opt for too many vacation days.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
No School Today
It is a weekend. That means, it is finally a rest time.
The boy has had no therapies being administered to him. He needs a speech therapy but we can only give that to him twice in a month. It is not sufficient but we are trying. We will not survive financially since his insurance does not cover this so twice a month is what we can offer best. Besides, we do an intensive teaching on him. His hours in school are not enough for him to gain knowledge as I believe there are lots of downtime on the part of the school. I will touch more on this matter later on when I have much time.
He had OT sessions before but it was stopped as his OT person told us that what he really needs is ST.
The boy has had no therapies being administered to him. He needs a speech therapy but we can only give that to him twice in a month. It is not sufficient but we are trying. We will not survive financially since his insurance does not cover this so twice a month is what we can offer best. Besides, we do an intensive teaching on him. His hours in school are not enough for him to gain knowledge as I believe there are lots of downtime on the part of the school. I will touch more on this matter later on when I have much time.
He had OT sessions before but it was stopped as his OT person told us that what he really needs is ST.
Friday, September 26, 2008
26 Sept 08 - 30th Day SY08-09
Jeez, BS P. Y., M. C. should have a copy now of AX psychological evaluation!! Fuck them and their ant brains. Okay, AX's psychological evaluation started today. The lady psychologist was so amazed that he sat with her without problems for an hour. Although, she said he was quite a handful when he was going to her office. It turned out that they did not tell her that AX must be occupied mentally during transitions. We do that all the time. We ask him to add, subtract and multiply one after the other. It works for us very well.
Anyway, AX did well in the cognitive part of the psychological evaluation. The average cognitive level is 90 - 109. AX scored 98. I think, the number is quite very good. That means, all along we are right in insisting to fucking two schools and this new school that AX is thinking and can think. That means, they should fucking teach him.
I asked again the ESE Specialist that if we could have the Reading book be sent home every so we can read to AX. I do not know what is the beef but the school is freaking keeping books stating the school has no extra copies.
I was told by the transition assistant that AX did good in Math test today. She said that AX loves Math.
There were no assignments inside his backpack.
Anyway, AX did well in the cognitive part of the psychological evaluation. The average cognitive level is 90 - 109. AX scored 98. I think, the number is quite very good. That means, all along we are right in insisting to fucking two schools and this new school that AX is thinking and can think. That means, they should fucking teach him.
I asked again the ESE Specialist that if we could have the Reading book be sent home every so we can read to AX. I do not know what is the beef but the school is freaking keeping books stating the school has no extra copies.
I was told by the transition assistant that AX did good in Math test today. She said that AX loves Math.
There were no assignments inside his backpack.
25 Sept 08 - 29th Day SY 08 - 09
It was great to have less school time. You know why? AX will be able to learn more when he is at home. They did not mainstream him Thursday because it was an early release day. Is there anywhere in the IEP that states no mainstreaming when there is an early release day? What the heck? I call that laziness.
I dropped to the front office his Math HWs and additional Math work I asked of him to do. You see, AX is in the x2 now in the multiplication table. I let him memorize and understand that 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 are odd numbers and 2, 4, 6, 8, 0 are even numbers. You can ask him, "What are the odd numbers? What are the even numbers?" He will tell you correctly.
After 3 days without Reading and Language HWs, they gave him today.
I dropped to the front office his Math HWs and additional Math work I asked of him to do. You see, AX is in the x2 now in the multiplication table. I let him memorize and understand that 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 are odd numbers and 2, 4, 6, 8, 0 are even numbers. You can ask him, "What are the odd numbers? What are the even numbers?" He will tell you correctly.
After 3 days without Reading and Language HWs, they gave him today.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
23 Sept 08 - 27th Day SY08-09
AX got home from school today. He has a little round mark on top of his left shoulder and a scratch-like mark (roundish ones) on his lower left arm. His GE Math teacher put a note on the SW sheet that he did not do his schoolwork/classwork. She gave HW Math for Monday and Tuesday. AX did them after he ate his lunch. He was not given Grade 2 Language or any Reading HW by his ESE teacher.
Yesterday, we were given a letter from the principal stating that the sub-teacher will be replaced permanently by a new teacher from another school. The teacher who was on maternity leave decided that she will just take care of her kids.
Yesterday, we were given a letter from the principal stating that the sub-teacher will be replaced permanently by a new teacher from another school. The teacher who was on maternity leave decided that she will just take care of her kids.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
22 Sept 2008 - 26th day SY08 - 09
An interim IEP meeting was conducted on 22 Sept 2008, 10:15AM. The ESE Specialist, Speech Therapist, GE Teacher, ESE Teacher, Autism Coach and the parents of AX were present. It only lasted for one hour because the ESE Specialist thought that the interim IEP is only for the change of service that AX is getting. You see, his Math is with the mainstream students now together with Science and Social Studies since the 3rd week of classes. The autism coach was informed two weeks before the meeting that we want to change the goals in the academic domain of AX's IEP. It turned out that he did not mention this to the ESE Specialist. Besides, he has been telling me about the books for Reading and Language that I requested for AX for weeks. It was only given today when we reminded that principal last Friday that we are requesting for books. Instead, they loaned us books for Science and Social Studies. We were able to get hold of the High Frequency word list from Preprimer to Grade 3 from the General Ed teacher. I hope AX will be able to read more or to recognize more words soon since it will be very hard for him as he grows older. His school is still not functioning well to what we are expecting (especially in what I am expecting) for AX to have. The ESE teacher has not shown any Reading/Language schoolwork since the start of the SY. I have been asking and they are not giving.
He was not given Reading exercises today.
We took him to the physician last Saturday (20 Sept 08). We showed her the video of the bruises and we took off his shirt to show the fading bruises since it is past 2 days now when the incident took place. She issued a certification. At least, it is one good proof that something is really happening to AX while in school.
He was not given Reading exercises today.
We took him to the physician last Saturday (20 Sept 08). We showed her the video of the bruises and we took off his shirt to show the fading bruises since it is past 2 days now when the incident took place. She issued a certification. At least, it is one good proof that something is really happening to AX while in school.
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