The first week ended on Friday. Mostly it was the worker, Laura and her supervisor, Sara, playing with him to gain a relationship and trust. They brought bins of toys.. playdoh, puzzles, treasure hunts, and throughout the week got into games of hide and seek, tickle monsters.. etc. Basically, they wanted Nathan to have fun and to like them. And it worked!
The afternoons were full of running around, laughing and inventing. They didn't really touch on anything except getting to know him and to get an idea of what reinforcers to use. Also, they watched for signs and 'holes' in his developement, example, imaginative play and language stuck out the most. On Friday, Sara started a LAP Test which is a booklet of tasks and tests that he has to complete. He really showed his 'autistic' side in his rigidness and reluctency in completing the tasks. The test is going to take awhile to complete, and that isn't a surprise as it would be overwhelming to do it all at once. They start at basic skills of the age of 2. Some of these skills he will excel as a 5 yr old, others are going to be quite difficult for him. He was all over the charts when the peds team and the child phychologist did these tests.
One thing for sure is that he is SO smart. He retains his knowledge, its whether or not he chooses to show them during the accurate times. Also, whenever I hear that he is delayed, or I learn something that needs work.. I act on it very quickly. Like his imaginative play.. although it is still basic, and repetitive it has grown to the fact that he can pretend to eat, sleep, be an animal or character, and hold action figures in his hand to TRY and develope a conversation or play setting using them as the speakers.
His favourite right now is Spiderman. He'll say.. You an Alien, I Spiderman!! Then web me with his fingers while I PEW PEW him with my imaginary freeze ray. He can sing the first 3 verses of the Spiderman theme song.. I have GOT to get that on my video!!!
The afternoons were full of running around, laughing and inventing. They didn't really touch on anything except getting to know him and to get an idea of what reinforcers to use. Also, they watched for signs and 'holes' in his developement, example, imaginative play and language stuck out the most. On Friday, Sara started a LAP Test which is a booklet of tasks and tests that he has to complete. He really showed his 'autistic' side in his rigidness and reluctency in completing the tasks. The test is going to take awhile to complete, and that isn't a surprise as it would be overwhelming to do it all at once. They start at basic skills of the age of 2. Some of these skills he will excel as a 5 yr old, others are going to be quite difficult for him. He was all over the charts when the peds team and the child phychologist did these tests.
One thing for sure is that he is SO smart. He retains his knowledge, its whether or not he chooses to show them during the accurate times. Also, whenever I hear that he is delayed, or I learn something that needs work.. I act on it very quickly. Like his imaginative play.. although it is still basic, and repetitive it has grown to the fact that he can pretend to eat, sleep, be an animal or character, and hold action figures in his hand to TRY and develope a conversation or play setting using them as the speakers.
His favourite right now is Spiderman. He'll say.. You an Alien, I Spiderman!! Then web me with his fingers while I PEW PEW him with my imaginary freeze ray. He can sing the first 3 verses of the Spiderman theme song.. I have GOT to get that on my video!!!
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