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 [...]
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 [...]
Aidan was so focused at speech therapy today. He did a categorization game with magnets — food, animals, transportation, clothes, and home. The SLP phased really gracefully from giving him choices between two categories — is the apple a food or an animal? — towards letting him pick them out himself as he got to [...]
Aidan’s speech therapy is mostly about extending vocabulary and discussing function right now. Most of the therapy games he plays are based on a deck of picture cards and then trying to name them and sometimes identify them by function. I would say that about 70% of the work he does is evaluative [...]
Aidan had his IEP today. It isn’t like your standard school IEP since the only service he receives is speech. He is not enrolled in school and one of the things we tossed about a little bit was the possibility of enrolling him in the school independent study program so that he could still be [...]
Here are the notes for what Aidan did with the OT today: First, I had him show her the page with the traced C’s from the Jan Brett site. This was because I had to call him down from upstairs when she came and I sensed he was going to be reluctant, so I wanted [...]
I wrote out a post for today and lost it… sigh. It’s Lent, I guess! I’m not going to write the whole thing out again, just summarize… Today was a light day as far as academics. Math and Latin were online drills. Sean finished the copywork and outlining activity he didn’t get to yesterday, and [...]
