The preschool program John attends at NECC includes monthly meetings with John’s program specialist, his primary teacher, and Mom and Dad. We cover general school behavior and very specific progress against the goals of his IEP (Individual Education Plan). Here are the highlights from the January report:

- John started reverse integration, where a typical child his age visits him in his classroom setting. This means that he’s progressed to acquire the minimum set of skills necessary to make this type of interaction worthwhile. Upon first meeting he became quite enamored with his new friend.

- Potty Training update: he’s just about 100% accident free when peeing, and during last month he initiated the trip to the bathroom instead of folloowing a regularly scheduled visit! Going #2 still is the next big challenge. We decided to try not wearing pull-ups during transition (car rides, hours around dinner time) to see if that will encourage him to produce on the potty.

- He’s been consistently using his PECs sentence strip for requests at home and school. Because John is nonverbal, PECs (Picture Exchange System) is the only way John communicates his needs. The system consists of small 2″ x 2″ laminate pictures velcroed to pages of his PECS book. Now he’s combining the pictures with a “I” and “want” picture to make a sentence strip. It’s real cute on Saturday mornings when we wake up to John standing next to us with a completed “I want Juice” sentence to start his day.

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