Actually, this was what Aidan was doing this morning, to the tune of a rather banal hymn we sing at mass which goes: Sing to the mountains, sing to the sea, raise your voices, lift your hearts.. Only he sang: Sing to the subjects, sing to the verbs. Or how about: Young verb on the [...]
If there are any speech-language pathologists who read this blog, please know I am by no means attacking the profession. I just am mentioning this because I always seem to be writing negatively in this area. Aidan’s speech therapist is conscientious and seems to know her field well. I think probably Aidan is a particularly [...]
“What are you doing, Aidan?” “Trying to swim like a frog.” Loved this post by Rosie at Dragons in the Flowerbed. It seems to sum up a lot about homeschooling. Another neat post about homeschooling at Knitting the Wind. When I am facing the school IEP, as I am now, and its preliminaries, I sometimes [...]
Aidan had a hearing test today at the local school. The nurse who gave the exam was a wonderful lady, warm and kind and interactive– he really responded to her. She gave him a set of earphones — one red and one blue — and then he was supposed to raise his hand whenever he [...]
Aidan, who is almost 9 now and functions on a six year old level, spent quite a bit of time with his 100 Easy Lessons book today, sounding out letters and trying to sound out words. It was interesting, because he had always enjoyed the book, but just recently had started resisting sitting down with [...]
Kieron made this homemade slime, yesterday — it’s unusual for us to do project-based learning so I photo’d the whole procedure, happily feeling just a bit like Theresa: He puts in the glue: He has laid out the instruction sheet and all the supplies ahead of time, which is nice — I didn’t teach him [...]
Varicella Zoster sounds like the surname of some evil foreign count, doesn’t it? Also known as chickenpox, the disease has worked its deliberate way through our younger set of children and on Saturday, Aidan came down with it. We were hoping he wouldn’t, since he had received a targeted immunoglobulin injection when we first found [...]
Once at Early Intervention, a mom brought in her 2 year old for evaluation while Aidan was doing occupational therapy in the same room. The little boy was doing imaginary play with dinosaurs while his mom and the evaluator watched, and the EI higher-up, whoever it was, said “well, that’s age appropriate”. Aidan was about [...]
Today was Aidan’s last speech session. Kevin drove us down to the school because he was getting worried about how worn down the brakes are — bless him : ). Aidan played a 4-step Sequencing game. It was the SLP’s last day at the school and she was a bit off her focus. We both [...]
When we drive all day, as we did today, it knocks me out for hours afterwards. I think it was in one of Raymond Moore’s books that I read that riding in a car upsets some peoples’ vestibular systems — even if they don’t get carsick, they often have impaired concentration for some time afterwards. [...]
