AU-Some Story

It was a great productive snow day for Jorge Juan. He was so excited to complete his project about Martin Luther King. He picked out the famous Black American from a whole list. Mind you, he is in Kindergarten. He told me why he chose Dr. King too. The project will be displayed at school for the month of February. He really likes that part. I printed out a few pictures for him of MLK, but he chose which ones he wanted. He then cut out the pictures by himself and pasted them onto colored paper. He chose the colors of the papers himself.


He decided that he wanted to make a book, so that is what it ended up being. He wrote his sentences by himself. He copied my writing on another paper to do so. He put cool stickers on his project. He chose the colors of the pipe cleaners to make the rings. I made the holes from a 3 hole punch but he placed the pipe cleaners in. He was so proud of himself and very happy. It was along project but it was fun and he stayed focused and interested in it. This is a big deal and a great milestone. He even explained to me and my husband who Martin Luther King was.
It was very touching. Patience and discipline has been gained through some times. He has been perfecting his fine motor skills and becomes engaged in the learning process.He has been improving all the time.He is very healthy and I believe the fish oil that he has been taking is assisting with many things in his path way. I have not seen him flap his hand sin a very long time and he has been very mild mannered and behaved.Yeah he still leaves his hat at school, but that is nothing compared to the great advances that he is making. I am so proud of him.Autism is his super power. He has come a long way.
He also read a lot today. He was active and accomplished a lot. He played, watched some quality TV and he learned.Tomorrow he has school and karate.He is excited about his project and to show to his teachers.

Autism will NEVER stop him. EVER

My Boy: part 13

Ok, so he likes to make faces and pose in the mirror during karate class and he likes to pretend he's a crab-snapping hands and all, but he is participating for the most part. He jogs, he kicks, blocks and all that other crazy karate jazz. He just needs a lot of redirection at times but they all think he is so cute. I find that karate is a good therapy. He goes three times a week for about 40 minutes each time.

He goes to Occupational Therapy once every other week and Speech therapy every other week. The schedule rotates. So it end up being one week OT then the next speech. But that day he has speech is a long day for him because right after that he has karate class after being in school for the entire day which is over 7 hours with the bus ride. Woah and he does it all. i am so proud of him. He is doing so well in OT that it looks like the sessions are coming to an end. Although he still will be reviving OT in school as part of the IEP.

In the beginning he was doing speech 2x a week. then it went down to 1x a week after a while and now we are at every other week. Also, OT was every week as well. So this neurologist is onto something. Just last month he said his Autism symptoms were "disappearing" and that he doe snot even seem like he was on the spectrum. He gave him a full in depth check up and was shocked and even said he did not need any more OT. Just to think, this is the same DOCTOR THAT WANTED TO GIVE HIM MEDICATION AT ONE POINT. THIS WAS THE SAME DOCTOR WHO PLACED HIM ON THE MIDDLE OF THE SPECTRUM AND THOUGHT THAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN HAVING MINI SEIZURES DUE TO BLANK STARES...and after time after prayers and dedication and never losing hope and faith- he is improving and that is an understatement.

And once the caterpillar thought it was over..

Hew emerged as a butterfly........

(stay tuned for part 14)