Today we had our parent/teacher conference to go over Adam's Fall progress report. In a word, Adam is doing great! They really didn't have a bad thing to say and he is right on track with everything. Yay! The couple of journal entries we got to see were fantastic! He's trying really hard to sound everything out and spell and the stories were entertaining. The only thing was that in some of his journal entries he would write "w" instead of "r" because that's how he hears himself. Same thing with "sh" and "ch" which he is working on in speech. They said he has started to hang out with more of the kids (instead of Will who he seemed to be obsessed with at the beginning of the year and who may be a bit of a bully) and that he is very empathetic.
During our conference, Adam went to CASE (they had people to watch the kids at school so you could go to your conference without having to find a babysitter for 1/2 an hour). Adam thought it was the best and did not want to leave. He watched a movie and was about to play video games when we picked him up. He has been asking to go to CASE after school because some of his friends go and I had to explain that it was for kids whose parents weren't home after school and needed someone to watch them. BUT - he really wanted to sign up for an after school activity that starts in January called "Science, Science, Science!". He will get to spend a little time in CASE before the activity starts. He is soo excited!
We also got a progress report from his speech teacher (which he has had maybe 3 times). She said he is producing the "ch" sound about 70% of the time (the goal is 90%). It was pretty amazing to me because the first week he worked on "ch", he brought home a little book to read/practice. He really sounded like he was saying "sh" and I would try to help him and he got frustrated. The next time he had speech, he came home with another little book and it sounded really good! We never had that quick of a change when were at Columbus Speech and Hearing. Unfortunately in the progress report it said,
"Additional
speech and language services are recommended outside of school at least once
per week, to promote mastery of identified phoneme productions to improve his
overall speech intelligibility in the classroom and across settings."
Adam had a hearing screening at school about a week ago. We got a letter from the nurse suggesting a trip to the ENT for a hearing test because he had issues at 20b, 1000, and 4000. We are used to seeing the 4000 but the other 2 were a surprise. So I wrote to the nurse an email about our journey since last summer's dog toy incident. I let her know he just had a hearing test in August that came back within normal limits and that he has collapsing ear canals when head phones are used (and he had a cold last week- not sure if that would affect it but just in case). She said she would put the email with all the info I wrote in his file and no need for another test. :) I am getting a copy of the audiologists report from St. Louis just so we have it for our files. All they had sent was a letter saying within normal limits.
Adam requested
I think that's about all the excitement here!
