Keeping Steady

Sean's improvement comes in spurts.  Things were pretty slow the last few weeks.  We worked mainly on maintaining the words and sounds he had been using.  Tonight, Sean knocked our socks off by answering correctly what sounds a dog, cat, owl, and chicken make.

He has been doing fine at school and his ABA therapy is progressing.  Unfortunately, his improvement at Occupational Therapy has come to a crawl.  It seems to be mostly related to his attitude.  When he is in a good mood, he can do the tasks asked of him fairly easily. But lately he has been in a bad mood at OT and is very obstinate about performing the tasks.  He seems to have decided the whole thing bores him.  He even gives the therapist repeated fake yawns, and the appointments are at 10 a.m. so I know he is not actually tired.  Boredom is always a huge obstacle with Sean.

At his psychologist's urging, we have started a new kind of play therapy with him.  It is designed to help him with his imitation and social skills.  I like the ideas behind it and am excited to see if he makes improvements with it.

He has added "hi" to his vocabulary but he doesn't often use it spontaneously.  He also has a near perfect "cookie" which he does use spontaneously.