Sarah's new talent is spooky..playing piano "fur eloise" and "greensleeves' after hearing them a few times. Reading everything. Does stubborn count as a talent
She has the sweetest smile and recently discovered dimples:)
Shelley
Shelley, Wow- that is cool! what is "stubborn count"? (PS-I saw "23" movie over the weekend-have you seen it yet?).
They draw well for their age and they have uninhibited imaginations.
I don't know what it meants, yet, but they hit the ceiling in the picture identification part of the PLS-4 language test (they had to name the pictures, or had to provide a generic term for a set of related objects, like 'musical instruments' for a picture of a guitar, sax, clarinet, etc.). They tested on about a seven year old level on this part of the test, despite being delayed in other areas. I don't know exactly what that means or how it will express itself later on, or if it's nothing.
The have the ability to hyper-focus, which is good and bad, as you know. When it's good, it's really neat. We were at the museum, and they had a 'space' exhibit, and they had a table set up where all the kids were making buttons/pins with space scenes on them. They'd select a little space picture, color it with markers, and then bring it over to the button press to have their picture turned into a button that they could pin on their shirt or whatever. Most of the other kids were climbing on the tables, wiggling in their chairs, scribbling, squabbling, nagging due to disinterest, or whatever, but Evie and Abbie took to the task, and focused for about a half an hour in creating these buttons without making a sound or a disruption. All around us, parents were nagging their kids to stay focused on what they were doing, while I just sat back and relaxed. For that half hour, I had the most well behaved kids in the building
Does he do well in school?
WOW ShelleyR and fred - that is really neat the kids can do that!
Keith is a strong reader and speller (I am not, lol) - A grade or two ahead his age. He does not enjoy either one unfortunately.
He currently enjoys computers and always has. He also enjoys ice skaking (hockey) and wrestling. He love to swim in the summer and ride bikes.
Cino516-Sarah is notoriously stubborn and can hold out with the best of them:) I haven't seen 23..it's a shame that it is rated R because my 15 yr. daughter wants to see it with me and I never let her see rated R yet..Why the "R" rating..you can pm me so we wont switch topics here:)
Fred- We always knew she would get lessons but wanted to wait till she had more language and school was running smoothly..I am very lucky that Sarah's first ABA therapist (an angel) also is a concert pianist and plays for her church:) She was the one to bring Sarah from nonverbal/no eye contact to being verbal and noticing us..she taught her to say "mama" and I will forever be grateful to her for that..she is deeply religious and prayed for her all the time and told me everyday that she would recover and Jesus would help Sarah find her words:) She & her husband both have worked with autistic kids for years and went to Russia a few times to advocate ABA. She gave us our hope:) We are very lucky as we found the right people at the right time..just no insurance would pay for it..oh well it's better than insurance paying for the wrong people:)
Shelley, is Sarah taking lessons? How are they, working with such a young child? I was thinking of starting my son with some sort of musical instrument - you know, while he's young.