Lots and Lots of stuff to do...
So to start with Time4Learning.com..wonderful site! My daughter has never been so excited to do school each day. She is doing the assignments we ask her to do plus more. She likes that she can earn "playground" time. Playground time is an area where they have safe clean games and links to safe sites like pbs kids go. My daughter already breezed through their science section for her grade level so I think we will keep doing our other science curriculum (Exploration Education) for the rest of this school year as well and revisiting any topic they offer on Time4Learning.com in order to reinforce what we have already taught her. I like that you can print out records of what she has done as I can use them for work samples to our charter school. I also like the fact that you can print out worksheets that reinforce what she has learned on the site that day. So far we are very impressed and play to pay for this site monthly once our 1 month trial is up.
On to my son..my son was diagnosed with autism last week. We have been in the early intervention program for a year now and knew that he had a developmental delay, speech disorder, and sensory integration/sensory processing disorder. He also has chronic eczema that gets infected as he claws and scratches it open often despite being on medication for the itching and the eczema. Alta regional center sent us to a very reputable clinical psychologist and he said 100% certainty that my son is autistic. So we met with his alta coordinator today in our home. He will be starting an ABA (applied behavior analysis) program in home soon on top of occupational therapy, speech therapy, warm water therapy, and physical therapy. The services besides the aba will be terminated when he turns 3 and his case for those handed to the school district. We are hoping they do not try and push us into a super long day program at a preschool as our son is just not ready for something like that. We had planned to homeschool him as well but are not against a good day program for him when he is older if it is what he needs. I just do not see putting a 3 year old in an 8 hour a day in school program so I am hoping they chose 1-3 hr a day max program and in home or site based therapies like what he does now. The aba we get to keep after he turns 3 and they will be in our home for probably 30+ hours a week (no more than 40, they deduct how long he is at his other therapies or school program from the 40 and are in our home for that amount of time). I am nervous but I know its best for him. I just get so nervous about people in my home since I am trying to overcome being a clutter bug and will hate if I am judged for being cluttered...oh well..at least the ball is rolling and hopefully we will be starting the process of getting our son on medicaid and ssi so we can take him into the doctor anytime he needs it (it will wipe out our copays of our current insurance since it will be two insurances) and the ssi would definitely help get him any other therapy aides he needs such as the weighted blankets and sensory helps.
On to my son..my son was diagnosed with autism last week. We have been in the early intervention program for a year now and knew that he had a developmental delay, speech disorder, and sensory integration/sensory processing disorder. He also has chronic eczema that gets infected as he claws and scratches it open often despite being on medication for the itching and the eczema. Alta regional center sent us to a very reputable clinical psychologist and he said 100% certainty that my son is autistic. So we met with his alta coordinator today in our home. He will be starting an ABA (applied behavior analysis) program in home soon on top of occupational therapy, speech therapy, warm water therapy, and physical therapy. The services besides the aba will be terminated when he turns 3 and his case for those handed to the school district. We are hoping they do not try and push us into a super long day program at a preschool as our son is just not ready for something like that. We had planned to homeschool him as well but are not against a good day program for him when he is older if it is what he needs. I just do not see putting a 3 year old in an 8 hour a day in school program so I am hoping they chose 1-3 hr a day max program and in home or site based therapies like what he does now. The aba we get to keep after he turns 3 and they will be in our home for probably 30+ hours a week (no more than 40, they deduct how long he is at his other therapies or school program from the 40 and are in our home for that amount of time). I am nervous but I know its best for him. I just get so nervous about people in my home since I am trying to overcome being a clutter bug and will hate if I am judged for being cluttered...oh well..at least the ball is rolling and hopefully we will be starting the process of getting our son on medicaid and ssi so we can take him into the doctor anytime he needs it (it will wipe out our copays of our current insurance since it will be two insurances) and the ssi would definitely help get him any other therapy aides he needs such as the weighted blankets and sensory helps.