Re: school supplies.

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Dear parent,

I hope I'm addressing this so it gets to right person.

To the mother who's child is now wanting to walk in walker

instead of lying around, you said you hope he would someday talk. well

I'm a successful therapeutic aide working one on one with children that may

have autism or PDD, etc.,

but I have an idea an idea came to me as I read your letter. As I'm sure you

probably know, when a child hasn't begun to talk yet, one way to get their

attention on the concept and to encourage and motivate her, is when they make

a sound, you wait till they're finished & then you copy it. And smile at

them like your really enjoying this conversation. Since I don't know your

child I may be totally off here. But maybe not. I would practice this as a

game and quality time together. I'd put Barouk music on. Are you familiar

with the concept of the " cross crawl " ? It's a motion you move their arms and

legs to encourage improved near communications. That's the layman's

explanation. I learned about when I studied, massage. I maybe totally off,

but the children I work with progress very quickly. I can imagine your child

and come up with more ideas on how to lead her to speaking but I've been

working on this letter for a long time and I have to get some other things

done.

I have a friend who would like to start conversing with other parents,

any ideas?

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The button I have snaps together-to plastic pieces you just make the nside

and snap it together. I dont know where they came from I had it lying around

from my contract negotiations I just took the middle out wrote my stuff on

some construction paper and snapped it back together. F

school supplies.

> I am really nervous about school also. I wish they

> would say it is too much for them and let him remain

> in his homebound program! They want to send him to the

> state school. I forgot about the crayons and paints.

> Where do I look that stuff up? It looks like I had

> better be more prepared for my IEP on Tuesday then I

> thought.That letter is a good idea. How do I make a

> button for him? Suddenly I am very nervous. Someone

> please type us new folks a whole list of stuff to tell

> the school to watch out for besides food. I think I

> need to go back and reread the letter.

> BTW, we are 10 days on the diet. He looks into our

> eyes for long periods of a time and smiles. Worth it

> to ME! He also wants to get up and walk in his reverse

> walker now instead of laying around. And he is

> " asking " people to do stuff for him. I hope that some

> day he talks.

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