The past couple of months have been so busy. I am in Laton 10.25 hours a day now and it sure eats up my life. Work has been good...better now that I have been making a better effort to not be harsh with my kids.
My little girl with autism has been having a tough year. She has literally been absent at LEAST one day a week, with most weeks being two days absent. When she IS at school she is pretty much usless as a student because she is so sick, with sinus infections, a nasty cough, and even a possible kidney infection. So needless to say, teaching has been a painfully slow and tedious. Lately I have been feeling inadequate in my knowledge of autism. One day I counted ten tantrums! And she goes home at one!
She spent much of last week's speech therapy looking around the room, unable to focus on the games.
But praise God for days like today.
Today we worked on the computer with a word building game shere she was shown a picture and asked to add the correct beginning letter. At first it was hit or miss. Then I started to say the letter she needed. And she started to pick the correct letter almost every time (she had a little trouble with P). And this is just incredible! Understanding the concept of spoken language having meaning...that has been a major roadblock. She had been doing well understanding pictures as symbols of objects, but not verbal language.
So I just wanted to say it, even though it sounds teeny...
