School

Jojo started his 5 day a week preschool last week. There are 11 boys in the class and one girl (poor thing)!! He had absolutely no separation problems, no anxiety and NO TEARS!!! I was the one crying like a baby!!! He knows what a big boy he is and really struts around his classroom. He rides the bus to and from school and he is so little his backpack goes down to the back of his knees when he is wearing it!

His teacher and parapros have commented on how confident, cooperative and sweet he is. We had his open house this week and so I got to learn more about his classroom routines and what he is learning. So far he LOVES school and that makes us very happy. He gets up in the morning very eager for the bus to come and tells me all about his day when he returns. The 2nd day of school he got off of the bus and was pouting and said "I want to go back to school, it was too short." He also told me he raised his hand and used his "man-ders" (manners)

We are still making the trip to West Bloomfield for speech twice a week. We have quite a rush to get him there in between Jojo getting off the bus and being back to pick Dominic up at 3:15. I think at some point we many have to cut down to once a week, which might be okay since he gets speech twice a week at school. He also gets OT and his teacher told me she noticed his weakness in his trunk area so she wants him to get PT eval at school as well.

I just received one of his interim reports from Kaufman Center and he met some of his goals from the last interim. He has now moved from a diagnosis of apraxia to dyspraxia. He is having difficulty with /h/ r/y/w/l/s/ and /s blends/ as a result he becomes increasingly unintelligible with an increased length of utterance. Many times even an unfamiliar person can decipher most of what he is saying, he just needs to start over and go slow. Last month he had a test administered to assess his expressive and receptive skills. His age equivalencies ranged from 3.8-4.8 yr olds so he is above his age which is great! The main goal is to work on clarity and length of utterance. We are so proud of him!!

He is now FINALLY able to sing along to a couple of songs if we go at a little bit slower of a pace which is so exciting. He also is singing his ABC's absolutely perfect!