Posted in Therapy, recordkeeping, special needs, Plans and Ideas, Journal on May 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in special needs, Nature, Movies on May 17th, 2007 2 Comments »
In spite of the philosophical sounding title this is not philosophical, just a collection of a few unschooling-type things that have been happening around here. But I almost want to save the title for a post where I might actually tie those things together : ). I’ll leave it there to […]
Posted in special needs, Plans and Ideas, Learning Notes, Journal on May 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Clean-up day today.
I am in laundry mode since Liam is coming home this week and I want to wash his sheets and blankets. Plus we had three loads from our Goodwill ventures yesterday.
I am almost caught up now.
Sean did his work:
( ) Mathematics
( ) Latin
( ) Story of the Church
( ) Greek
( ) Henle — […]
Posted in special needs on May 7th, 2007 3 Comments »
Aidan had a seizure last night… it came out of the blue. It was a partial onset seizure, and stayed that way, which is not really typical of him. Usually the seizures generalize to full tonic/clonic and enough times to be frightening, he has gone into status epilepticus and stopped breathing.
This time, […]
Posted in Therapy, special needs, Journal on May 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Therapy, special needs, Journal on Apr 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Poetry and the Arts, Literacy and Language, special needs, Journal on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Since this has been an unschooly week I’ll just summarize the eclectic odds and ends we have been working on.
Art
Kieron is doing gif animations now. He downloaded a program to try and add music and sound effect midis to the “movie”. So now he is working on that […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Milestones, special needs, Journal on Apr 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
I always feel like Ma Ingalls when I write something like “today we went to town” like it was a real occasion. For us, it is, since it involves a 60 hour one way trip to get there and then, since “town” is one of those horizontal valley cities, it takes a lot of […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones, special needs on Apr 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I can’t find the post where I talked about Aidan having trouble with the concept of “before and after”. This seems to be a favorite V-tech toy option. He has been playing quite a bit with an old V-tech number phone. One of the games is “What comes after #N? (for example, 5)” […]
Posted in special needs, Transition Years, Books, Journal on Mar 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Quick catch-up:
Our friends left today.
Thursday:
While Kevin and I drove to TAC to pick up the 3 prospective college students on Thursday, our middle boys stayed with their friends and watched a couple more hours of Liberty. WE got back pretty late — got to see Liam and the 3 young people talked us through […]
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