This Week In Our Journey: Ending December 4, 2008

This week was relatively calm. DD really did not have a good week at school, but at home things went well. We had an appointment with her psychiatrist yesterday. We are working her off another medication starting today. By the end of December she will be off a total of two more. I am excited and nervous at the same time. I pray that she does well off her medications and that we can manage her behaviors through therapy only. I am starting prep work for next Friday's ARD. The LSSP called today and said that the behavioral services survey is complete and she wants to meet with me next week to go over it. I am going to have her send home a copy for me to review prior to the meeting. I am curious as to what it says as I did not get a good feeling/vibe from this particular LSSP when she called me a few weeks ago.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Interesting Article on Brain Waves and Language in Autistic Children

Brain Waves are Window in autistic language woes

A Chocolate Sort of Day

Yesterday was one of those days. It started when DD announced very early on that she wasn't going to church. We worked through that and off to church we went with her gift for Angel's Of Light. At church she had a melt down. She even told me that she wasn't going back to her bible study class because the kids were throwing food at her. So I called her bluff and said "Let's go over there and talk to them about this. I want you to show me the kids who did it." She replied, They will just deny it." I was so embarrassed by DD's behavior. Who knows what they think of me as a parent. After days like this I just don't want to go back. I ended up sitting in the car with her while Jimmy went to worship service. After a few minutes she calmed down and wanted to then hug and kiss on me. We told her that as a result of her behavior at church she had to spend the day in her room. She spent most of it banging on the wall. We still had to go grocery shopping so it was decided that I would go to the store. That set DD off because she wanted to go. Jimmy told me to go ahead and go and that he would handle this outburst. So I pulled out of the driveway to a child screaming at her father. What fun! After walking around Wal-Mart for a while I finally got groceries and a Hershey's bar at the check out line. Not on the diet, but I needed it.

I can't think of what would have triggered this meltdown unless it was just over stimulation from Thanksgiving, getting the tree out on Friday and shopping on Saturday.

To end this post on a positive note-DD had a great day at school today! One down and four more to go!

Upcoming ARD Meeting

We have an ARD on December 12. I sent to DD's special ed teacher a list of the changes/additions that I want to her IEP. He called me back and said that they all look very good and he would write them up in draft and send them to me. Hopefully the rest of the ARD committee will agree!