Preston and I visited the Lee Ann Brittain center today. What a beautiful facility. I spoke to Amy, the director for about an hour and a half. She had a lot of great suggestions for him. She gave me the name of a therapy group for children. I felt really confortable with her and she wasn't shoving her school down my throat. She seemed genuinely interested in his well being. She is going to visit with Shannon Lockwood (OT that works there and happens to be a friend of ours) and see if they can come up with some answers about helping him progress more. She complimented Preston to me a lot. She saw that he had some great skill sets. He DOES.
I then spoke to the SPED teacher at our school in his classroom. Juanita. She suggested we work on little and big. He doesn't understand those yet. I am concerned that he still doesn't know his age. He says he is "2" when asked though we we have repeatedly tried teaching him he is "3" since last December! He's now closer to FOUR than three! ACK....Where did the time go? Anyway. He has a long haul. He is fighting "work" with me and with the teachers some. He cries when they make him work too much. I think he needs to be pushed.
I feel a little lost. No one really directs us. I have to learn to be his advocate. I had a case worker with ITS but now I have ME and Mike and that is it! And we don't know much about all of this. I am starting to research and learn as much as I can.
Amy is going to call me back next week. Juanita is contacting all of his therapists and having him re-evaluated for OT services. He is clearly sensory seeking. Then we will review his IEP.
The ball is rolling.
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