Stephanie! That is SO awesome!!! Great that hes making progress so quickly and that you are also learning the some too!
WAY TO GO NOAH!
Also don't worry about sharing some progress. Who else will understand the milestones everyone else takes for granted? Mildly autistic, severely autistic or anything inbetween,.... our kids still have similar characteristics and their own problems.. We are all here for each other no matter the severity of the disorder.
That is wonderful news! Terrific job Noah!!!
Hello everyone. I have some good news to share, but first of all, I just want to say that I'm not trying to sound like everything is honkey dorey with my ds or seem like I'm trying to brag or anything. I just want to share some good news with people who appreciate these kind of "successes". My ds has fairly mild autism so I feel like I don't fit in enough with the autistic community, and he's not NT either, so I certainly don't fit in with that community...I'm just kind of trying to find a comfortable place to share info with others who understand. Anyway- ds has been attending preschool at the ISD for a week now and not only is he making huge improvements with his eye contact, but he will look at us if we say "look"! Before he started school there was NOTHING I could do to get him to look at me. Then one day he came home from school and lifted up my chin and said "look" and made me look him in the face. It was really cute. So now if I wan't him to look at me all I have to do is say "look" and he does! I don't see how they accomplished this so fast. Of course, if you say his name don't expect him to look at you, but I guess if you don't understand social stuff that would make sense. When I say "Noah" he's probably thinking, yeah, that's my name, don't wear it out! LOL. But if you say "look" that actually means something. Can you all tell I'm just now starting to put things together? I should be attending some kind of school also - there is so much for me to learn too!
My son wouldn't answer to his name either and we managed to teach it in
about five minutes, seriously. You need another adult to prompt. One
calls his name from a few feet away, the other prompts him to look and
say Yes Mum or similar. If his language is up to that then he probably
will get it quickly as he is such a quick study.
We always love to hear positive stories. Keep up the good work Noah.
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