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Post by rocko on Feb 26, 2008 11:04:48 GMT -5
I knocked a bag of popcorn of the desk and cool me caught the bag upside down and poured popcorn all over the floor.
I joking say to Kyle, "did you put all that popcorn on the floor?" He says, "yes!" and is totally serious.
How in the world do I teach my special needs boy to communicate and really understand what we are asking? I mean if someone hurts him, I don't know if he is telling the truth or not.
*sigh*
Just FYI, I said, "No, Momma did it!"
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Post by rocko on Feb 26, 2008 15:58:32 GMT -5
Alec has to use the words yap and yelp each in a sentence.
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Post by Dave on Feb 26, 2008 21:13:03 GMT -5
"Yap, yap, yap, that's all you ever do," Alec yelped to his mother.
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Post by finding on Mar 3, 2008 9:00:50 GMT -5
What types of therapies is he getting? How old is he? If I remember correctly he is pretty young. It will come in time.
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Post by rocko on Mar 3, 2008 9:22:41 GMT -5
He is four and in speech and language therapy to help with his communication skills.
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Post by finding on Mar 3, 2008 9:28:15 GMT -5
He's still young and doesn't have the reasoning skills for cause and effect. Just give it time.
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Post by rocko on Mar 3, 2008 9:30:49 GMT -5
I think I just get soooo frusterated. I know he is 4 (5 in July), but he really isn't. He is 2-3 (depending on which area we are talking about). He pushed an 11month old baby down bc the baby touched his toy on Friday. I have was able to teach him not to do that again, but he still screams when the baby comes near him bc the baby gets too close.
*sigh*
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Post by finding on Mar 3, 2008 9:35:26 GMT -5
I think I just get soooo frusterated. I know he is 4 (5 in July), but he really isn't. He is 2-3 (depending on which area we are talking about). He pushed an 11month old baby down bc the baby touched his toy on Friday. I have was able to teach him not to do that again, but he still screams when the baby comes near him bc the baby gets too close. *sigh* Buddy is just the opposite. He tries to take babies home with us.
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Post by rocko on Mar 3, 2008 9:55:21 GMT -5
My typical child, Alec, is that way. He loves animals and babies. Kyle doesn't like anyone (other than his "people") to get in his space or he screams, animals and babies dont' respect that.
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Post by sheyd on Mar 3, 2008 11:01:39 GMT -5
At four, even a non-special needs child will have difficulty knowing what a "lie" is. They will tell you what they think you want to hear - even if it is tattling on themselves - even if they didn't do it. Whatever makes their life easier. That is why they have difficulty doing verbal exams of kids below 6 - they just have such a difficult time knowing what "truth" means. It IS frustrating, but it exists... The kid with half a cookie in their hand and cookie crumbs around their mouth saying "I didn't eat any cookie, mommy, I swear!" came out of this age.
As for the pushing... dang... I've seen kids way older than him that have problems sharing or who push other kids. It sounds like he got the idea that pushing is unnacceptable, so you are making huge progress! As discouraging as it is, and frustrating... (kids this age just ARE that way, even non-special needs) look at each learning thing as a positive step, it will help some. He is making progress!
What is funny, is we as parents are NEVER happy - they are either not progressing fast enough, or too fast! One minute we're saying "you're old enough to know better" and the next we are saying "let me squish you down, stop growing!" or "I only have x number of years left with you!" I miss 4. My youngest baby is about to be 6 end of May... sigh.
Shey
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Post by rocko on Mar 3, 2008 11:15:21 GMT -5
I definetely love each stage we have gone thru. I wouoldn't go back and redo any of it though. Alec being sooo freakin' good and sooo smart....makes Kyle who is difficult harder for me to understand. OF course, everyone knows that if you have two kids they are always total opposites.
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Post by sheyd on Mar 3, 2008 11:19:57 GMT -5
What surprised me, when my first two were total opposites, was that my third was still different yet! Three kids, totally unlike each other!
Shey
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Post by rocko on Mar 3, 2008 11:36:01 GMT -5
Kevin's son is very much LIKE our 5 year old, but stilll sooooo very different.
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