phinnia: smiling dolphin face (boy in box)
phinnia ([personal profile] phinnia) wrote2006-10-16 03:07 pm

abuse of italics inside

Is Dance Dance Dance meant to be a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase, or am I just confused in drawing parallels between them?


Meeting with the SLP next Monday (10/23.) Am going to suggest increasing speech therapy in his IEP (the OT was willing to sign off on increasing her service, so I figure it might be worth a shot.) I'm also giving a thought to private speech therapy in supplement to what he gets at preschool.

The way I see it, the lack of language is a much bigger problem - and it's difficult to address, because most ways of dealing with nonverbal kids involve pictures, and ... yeah.

I've got a call in to Children's Speech/Language services. We'll see what they say.


Where is the line between advocacy and being an ass? If I push for my kid to have more therapy, this may mean that some other child gets less therapy (inasmuch as there are only x hours in a given day). But I can't just sit around, not knowing what's causing this language delay - and half an hour a week or however much they have him in one on one therapy seems like so little and it feels like it makes no difference, and ARGH. *flails hands incoherently* I am not good with the sense-making today, I think. Did not sleep well. Woke up at 4:00AM because the boy had a nightmare and my hands were cold and stiff enough to be immobile. Ergh.

I think it would be easier if I just knew why, you know? It's not genetic - Chris was talking early, and I had normal language development. What the hell? But whenever I ask, it seems to get shrugged off, and it's really starting to piss me off. Why are we not trying to find the cause of this again? WTF.
</whine>


Child likes to lie on the floor, listening to music, sometimes rocking a little bit. It's a thing he does.
Neko: Oooh! I will play with The Small One! *bats at Sean's hair*
Sean: *shoves cat away*
Neko: A game! A game! *plays with Sean's hair*
Sean: *shoves cat away*
Lather/rinse/repeat. At least as long as the cat's attention span, anyway.


Is it just me, or is there something terribly wrong with the whole idea of this product? (probably not worksafe.)
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[personal profile] phoenixsong 2006-10-17 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Half an hour a week sounds like next to nothing. Do what you need to do now, so Sean learns (if nothing else) how to advocate for himself later.

*hugs*