Monday, October 08, 2007

Jake, writing a sentence? yes, no, maybe

OK, this might be too premature to brag, but I want to write down what Jake is starting to do. With prompting, Jake is able to place Mayer Johnson symbols in sequence to form sentences. His teacher Ms. Roberta gave me the idea as an activity to do at home, so I immediately thought of the little wonderful book Susan (Jake’s speech therapist from Apple Pre-school) made for him. Each page of the book has a short sentence with 3-4 Mayer Johnson Symbols, an example of a page would be "I play computer with dad".

Then I give Jake a set of matching symbols but out of sequence, he is able to find the matching symbols to form the same sentence. He does still needs to be reminded from time to time that he must find the symbols in the exact sequence. He is so proud of himself after he finishes the sentence and asks to do more.

Here is the same sentence that Jake did:
If you had asked me a year ago, or even 6 months ago if Jake will be able to write a sentence, my answer would have surely been probably not. But today, I think he might.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

A note from Jake's speech therapist at school

Today I got the following note from Jake's speech therapist at school, it reads: " Jake did an excellent job! He was able to pick yellow from black correctly 7/7x. He was also able to identify corn, sun, banana, and star correctly by pointing! I am so proud!!! :) :)"

Yes, she did have the 2 smiley faces at the end...Isn't this a great note to read after a long day of work?
I think Jake is making new friends at his new school, it seems that everytime I go to school, some one always says hi him. All the paras in his class seem to like him.

On a different subject, Jake still won't go to the potty with any of the paras at school after one month of trying. Today his teacher wrote the following:
"We are giving Jake extra juice. Also we are showing him some cereals that he can get if he goes to the potty....We can try a cheese doodle tomorrow (cereal did not impress him much)." Let's hope tomorrow the cheese doodle can do the trick...

I got Jake's Halloween costume today, I think it is going to really cute. I got it on eBay. Pictures will follow when Halloween comes..