Acquara Independent School

Avery’s EI Teacher, Jean came today. She is depressing when she comes because 1) she doesn’t really do anything with Avery, she just wants to talk to me, which seems like a waste of time. He is getting no therapy. 2) She says absolutely nothing that I don’t already know, haven’t already tried. I wish she had something new for me to try. 3) She is perplexed by exactly the same things that I am perplexed about. Thus justifying my perplexities which makes them more frustrating. Every time she is here I feel like Avery is really disabled, and I get really confused as to what to do with him.

He is on his fourth day of being a crabby, stiff, no-fun baby that you can’t work with. He had vaccines last week and he has a snotty nose. Then this morning, Nik says he gave him milk over the weekend. I thought we had agreed on our test-retest validity of the lactose screening trials. He acts awful and intolerable when he has a lot of dairy. So, Nik went up and got him more almond milk. I am hoping things improve in the next few days because he has just been impossible to deal with.

I’m going to scale back demanding communication from him again (It hasn’t worked anyway…) and just be extremely consistent with really clear words, signs, subroutines, actions right after words given, hand-over-hand signing. Also work on symbol system more and that kid needs a schedule that is extremely consistent. Ugh. Hard with so many kids.

Work on:

• symbol for “go outside” Bring him shoes? Or make some sort of key symbol?
• work on alternatives for hitting other kids. signs for my turn/your turn. Just not tolerating it.
• Work on No/Yes signs and questions.
• Calendar schedule: what is consistent daily?

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