Junior Preschool

So Dalton just had his last Jr preschool class.  I think he was the youngest in his class. The class was advertised for 3-4 yo - at least in the group run by his speech therapist, but she wanted him in it. 

They did lot of cute art projects & he learned his shapes fairly solidly in the class.  He knew his shapes somewhat before hand, but now he is a pro - we are still working on him naming them.  We have to pretty much say "where is the..."  then he will point & say it.  If you were to say "what is this" he will answer "this".  Our therapist recognized this a few weeks back & has started to incorporate yes/no question into his therapy.  She said that is the easiest to learn then they move on to "who/what/were/when questions.

His class was made up of 6 or 7 kids who had mostly speech delays, so although he was younger he was fairly level with most of the class speech wise. 

I also learned that while he reacts to auditory stimuli (mostly loud groups) at first in group he warms up & interacted nicely!  We know he reacts to over stimulation of audio input, but it was nice to have some proof that others see it too & that we arent the only people that see the symptoms/characteristics of autism in our son.  It is hard to live with family & friends who see nothing more than a speech delay...

Anyhow, also after the last class he had speech like the past few weeks.  And I was reminded again of what I will have to start doing.  In early to mid september I need to contact my local school & get him evaluated for 3 yo preschool & get him an iep.  He should qualify for both speech delay & autism dx, but we will see how this all goes.  I am nervous of him borderline not qualifying.  I cant believe my baby will be possible starting school in january.  And yet I am still waiting to freaking get added to the waiver list.  Folks we are 7+ months into waiting to be qualified to be approved for ssi to be added to the waiver wait list.  Average time for this is 2-3 months.  Our worker is of NO USE - or at least it feels that way.  She always just says she has nothing new for me when i ask status & has no info of people higher up I can contact about it... because really at this point it is crazy & i am ticked.  Because once we get approved to be on the waiver wait list it can take up to 2 years just to "get your number called" so to speak to get therapy started.  Ugh so aggravated with it!

Well i guess this post got a little ranty! Ha!