Hey all, hope you're all doing well. I am getting by. We didn't buy a pool pass this year because the times we've tried to go to the big pool they've been at capacity. So we bought one of those octagonal pools we had before the pool pass. Hopefully it will get us through the summer.

Jackie is doing good. We've been working on math, addition and subtraction and what not. He's doing great. Mom is coming out to do respite mondays' and tuesday's and it's helping his attitude a lot.

He's in summer school and has two more weeks left. After that the regular school year begins August 9th. I hope you're all doing good. I started on a beta blocker a month ago and it's really helped nix my overwhelming anxiety isssues. I am so pleased.

Dear Pam

thank you for the update thread! Glad to hear you guys are all doing well. heat is stifling isn't it. makes me wanna buy an octagonal pool... FOR THE LIVING ROOM!



~ waves ~

Oh thank you for the update.
and it sounds like the beta blocker is helping!!!! yeah!!!!!
happy for you
bizi

June was the hottest June on record in S. Florida.

May was the hottest month May on record GLOBALLY.

Stay cool.

That's all I have to say for now.

M.

Hi Pam
I have missed you.

So glad Jackie is doing so well> I bet he is enjoying the pool

Donna

Well I am glad to say Mom is coming out today and I will observe her working with Jackie on the flashcards we've purchased. She is so good with him, and we give him raisins or cheese crackers for the reinforcer for him for when he gets five questions right and earns five tokens, he gets a small handful of raisins or a couple of cheese crackers. Works great for him too. He's actually getting his head around addition and subtraction AND sight words! I am really glad he's moving forward, it used to be thought that autistics couldn't learn, what a load of barnacles! My kid is capable of learning no matter what so called experts might have thought in the past, it doesn't mean it was true.

I missed you all, I should be around more but I can't promise I'll be posting like mad, kiddo only has two more weeks of summer school which is seven days of school and seven more days off, we go to his pdoc weds. and so he'll have that day off. We did the dental cleaning last Friday and he was awesome. I was RELIEVED that the dentist thought the lines in his front teeth were grooves and NOT cracks. THAT really concerned me, but i feel much better. Good to see you all, I'll check in again soon.

Pam

It sounds very much like Jackie is maturing very much and learning lots
at the same time. Good job you are doing. Its so nice to get good updates
on him.

Donna

Dear Pam

that is a marvelous report on Jackie's progress!

i am glad your mom is there to help and so good with him too.

~ waves ~

Dear Pammy,
This is so good to read!!!
very happy for your family!
bizi

Thanks everyone. It might be summertime but it's really not that bad, I think my little boy is finally maturing in many ways and it's a joy to witness. We go shopping and he's such a big help to me. He's not putting my chair in the trunk yet, but only because I don't trust him to NOT catch the cords to the third brake light and rip them out in his enthusiasm to HELP mom....LOL! But if I'd let him he would do it.