So I have been away for a few weeks it’s been a bit crazy around here. I was preparing for my business open house for Thirty One and Stampin’ Up! and I was also preparing for my first day of class. I’m huge on schedules around here so I had to re-configure my business and academic life into my schedule and I figured while I was at it I might as well add in the homeschooling schedule because summer will be here before I know it and so will fall. I have decided to create my own curriculum as I am not enthused with the two internet based schools that I found, plus my gut is telling me that my kids will learn better with something completely tailored to them. You might think me crazy but I enjoy having my children home with me. So what you wonder has been going on in the Fuller world of Autism?
Let’s start with Jai Lynn Spring break was a great time for us we worked on multiplication, subtraction and general overall household chores. We worked on and still are working on her not apologizing for everything. Learning that when you make a mistake to apologize once but don’t continue doing it. Once is enough. She is doing 1 tsp of the Divine Child drink, Serrapeptase, castor oil wraps, clay bath acetyl l carnitine.
This summer we’re going to dig deep with reading comprehension. Although, she can read at a 6th grade level she can only comprehend at about a third, she retains about one quarter of what she reads. She is not very good at all at simple recall. The main reason I’m thinking of pulling her is that middle school is a completely different monster Many more kids, classes just bigger and that is a lot. She can’t even tell me clearly what went on at school that day. And that concerns me that she doesn’t have simple recall skills.
Jai Lynn has come a long way in the department of self-care but she still has a ways to go.We are still learnin how to deal with emotions and not go from 0 -1000 in 30 seconds flat. But progress is being made. A gain for her was this morning we were running late mainly because she was playing aroud in her room versus getting dressed and eating her breakfast. When we got in the car she asked where we late and I stated “yes” and she said I’m sorry for doddling (from little Bill it means being a slowpoke). Then today after a melt down she said mom I’m sorry for yelling. When she has meltdowns (which isn’t too often) she’ll often make negative statements like “I’m such a fool, I’m stupid, I’m a loser” so I’ve been taking those times to pump her with positive affirmations, we have also been doing positive affirmations before she gets out of the car.
Marcus, Jr has been doing well. Spring Break was a great , no seizures. He worked on math and reading fluency. Same supplements as Jai Lynn including Min-Chex.
Some gains that he is making is in his cognitive ability. We just started Luminosity which is a brain training website, you get some games for free the rest along with some other tools are available with the subscription, we will be getting the subscription by the way for both kids because they both need it.
This week so far he has had four seizures (three yesterday, one today) a bout of bad gas, and grinding his teeth. The new Divine Child drink has tamarind in it to detox them from fluoride poisoning (yes the stuff in our water and toothpaste that they said would help is poisoning us and our children) and it also has kelp which is a great source of iodine.
Today he had a castor oil wrap and clay bath and is doing much better. It appears to me that he is detoxing from the new divine child drink and that we should see more gains. He has been very alert all day, although alert his focus has been a bit off today which it normally is after a seizure. This seizure was different than anyone one I have seen. Then I started to think, maybe it is because I never truly observed his seizures my “fight or flight” went into play and my main concern was getting him someplace safe. But it appears that he is having General Tonic-Clonic Seizures. So now that I have a pretty good idea that it’s not absence seizures I can move forward (which is why we are using Luminosity). Something he did last night that made me keep the faith is, when his curtain fell I asked him where was the piece that went to it. I heard it drop on the floor but didn’t see it where I thought it would be. After I finished attaching the curtain he tapped me on the shoulder and pointed directly to the piece! So super proud of him.
Mason is growing by leaps and bounds and his language is doing great he can say mamma, daddy, bro bro,sissy, GiGi(that’s my mom) and trying to teach him PaPa. He knows who each of the people are, and he can identify and say his (and yours) nose, ears, mouth, head,teeth, and other body parts. Whenever someone doesn’t give him his way he says their name the says a bunch of baby talk in the middle then the name of whoever he’s reporting to so for example Daddy insert baby talk here Sissy. So that would mean he’s telling on his sister lol. He knows how to ask for food items that he wants and can read facial expressions like the guy from the show “Lie To Me” (If you haven’t seen it look it up). We are learning shapes, numbers, colors, counting and alphabet.
So as you see we are super busy here but I love it. We have some exciting events coming up in the near future that I will report on and so much growth on the horizon.
Until Next Time,
Wishing you Blessings & Recovery,
Charmaine
*side note I was just elected as an at-large delegate to the Michigan Special Education Advisory Committee State Advisory Panel!
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