Archive for the ‘Autism’ Category

Well last year was quite the school year with Dakota and I was really happy with how creative the school was getting to try to accommodate Dakota. However after much thinking and debating at this point in time he can’t handle it and to put him through it again isn’t going to give us any gains.

I thought about things and I think if we approach the socialization and the communications issues maybe the transition into school with be for the better. Now if he were to say all of a sudden I want to go gym I will jump on that in a heart beat and move forward from there.  Read more...

Well you remember my post about Dakota meeting the special ed teacher. Once we got home he shut down big time. We also went to a used homeschool book sale to see if we could find some games for him over summer. Didn’t find to much for him but I found a ton of stuff for Brittany though.

Well we got back just a little later then I normally give DJ his pills for bed. I gave them to him and at 2 AM he was still awake. My husband got up at 4 AM still awake. Brad got up for school and he was still awake. I got up at 8 AM and he was still awake. He NEVER went to bed. He tried as he was laying down the whole time.  Read more...

Well today Dakota got to meet the Special Ed Teacher during Gym class. He went into gym sat down and bit his nails. He sat on the bench when the gym teacher called out his color to play soccer. So I asked one of the girls to go get him to get him to play. He went out and played but he really just stood there biting his nails. Then the special ed teacher went over and tried to talk to him.  Read more...

As you know I took Dakota to gym for 20 minutes on Thursday. I was told when we stopped in the office to sign in that there was a substitute. I thought to myself oh boy. This is going to affect Dakota and it did because if he could have he would have shut down.

When I walked in she was sitting on the bleachers the kids were running around with a ball and tagging people and they had to freeze. But the weird thing of this game is that they had to stay on the lines. Couldn’t skip lines or cut corners. Dakota was tying his shoe and he got tagged. So he sat there chewing his finger nails and covering his eyes. It was rather loud in there.  Read more...

Well today Dakota had another melt down this time he was screaming and yelling and at times he threw things at the mention of school. Not sure what is the trigger as I said he could just go to gym today. I called the Case Manager to see what her thoughts might be and to let her know what was going on. I told her we have to take one day at a time because I don’t know one day to the next and she agreed. I told her I would let her know what happens once I called the school.  Read more...