Maz - bummer on the social stories and images not working :-( Hope the excursion went OK. I can't believe how many excusions Xander goes on???? He has been on at least 3-4 this year and now they are going to gymnastics every Wednesday just to throw our routine out even more.
Speech path went well. She is going to give us some resources to work on social speech and he'll do two appointments with her to work on this. Something I hadn't noticed is how much better his speech is at the moment the stutter/repeating sentences thing has really eased off, not sure if it's the diet, OT or just ???
Loz - great seeing you today. Your son is just beautiful!!! That laugh is gorgeous. he and Xander had heaps of fun playing together. I hope you got some answers from gillian.
Excursion went well..thank god! I think cause there was al ot of reading involved and Wilhelm loves reading. He told me the books that were read and then proceeded to 'read' them to me.
Sarah - I find that WIlhelm goes through stages in everything. HIs speech was one thing that went in leaps and stages. I notice that when he's really inadequate that he repeats movie scenes. We have slowly gotten the block down that he has about movies since I ask him everyday what he did at school. Its only taken almost a year lol.
Id love to know how you guys do it with diet's? I have so much trouble getting Wilhelm to eat anything healthy. I often give him Incremin which is a Iron based suppliment for kids that dont eat. I find I usually give it to him when he's having areally bad stage and it helps to calm him down.
hmmm I posted something earlier... must have been eaten by the gremlins.
Diets: Our results with the diet thing, at 2.5 yrs old Matilda's speech stopped developing. 4 weeks after stopping milk (8 weeks after going chemical free) it started developing again. She still hasn't caught up, but she is getting better! I can totally say it was dairy related. Scary.... but so true.
Maz, Matilda eats at the best of times, when the wind is blowing the right direction and with just the right amount of chocolate is involved . Seriously, its pulling teeth most of the time. I bought these jelly bear things that are concentrated veges that I give her periodically as well. We are 50% gluten free now... cutting down on it, but thats hard too!!
Matilda loves pasta and noodles, so I use rice pasta and noodles. She hasn't noticed the difference, but we do!! Blerk! She loves sausages... so we have heaps of sausages and mashed potatoes... done with rice milk. She likes bolognaise so the rice pasta goes to work. I also make a soup, for the bad days. She has issues sometimes with textured food so I make a pureed ham, potato and leek soup (which I throw cauliflower and broccoli in to hide!) and always have some of that in the freezer for the days she hasn't eaten anything. At Montessori, she has to have the same lunch EVERY time. That is why we aren't gluten free.... or totally chemical free anymore. The lunch is rice snacks, fruit strap (one of those ultra healthy ones with 100% fruit), and a vegemite sandwich, cut in 2 squares and 3 triangles if its not cut right, she won't eat it. Morning tea is fruit, and apparently Matilda will only eat apple or watermelon... *groan*
At home, its heaps worse.... breakfast is only maybe a slice of toast with honey, if I'm luck 1/4 cup of plain rice bubbles... and anything sugary she could get her hands on, or thats it. Dinner is my best bet for getting food into her if I hit the right time and its not too late. But she did go 2 months without eating dinner as well.
I told my Pead about the chocolate freak I have here and he said its because chocolate contains Iron and its what he's craving. Apartently its quiet comon in A kids to crave chocolate like this.
Wilhelm is a white food eater....noodles, spagetti, potatoe,cheese, cauliflower,bread, milk, eggs...and Brocolli oh and carrots on the odd occasion...He hates sauces and if I put something new on his plate and it touches something he normally eats he tells me he cant casue it has germs. He use to love sausages but has gone off them now...he'll eat fish like there's no tomorrow and chicken every now and then, aslong as its the 'turkey drumstick'
You said you use Rice milk? Is there a difference in taste at all? I might get my hands on som e and try it with Wilhlem.
Im very jealous that you can atleast get some fruit in.....Wilhelm has never had fruit and he would gag on it and it drives me insane trying. Little bugger is a bean pole to.
The only fruit I can get in is Red Delicious Apples, Mango and watermelon, but they each have to be cut a certain way. Montessori cuts up the fruit parents bring in and Matilda will eat only Apple and Watermelon there . The fruit strap is a weird one, I buy it in the healthy isle at Woolies and it has apple and apricot mashed together, thats it. She loves it, so I give her one a day to get her fruit intake because you can bet if I cut an apple special for her, she won't eat it. I got sick of wasting money and now only buy fruit specially for Montessori and the rest of the family.
I meant to post this the other day but had to go do something half way through and forgot to come back to it.
Sarah in regards to the speech pathologist yes they can help them learn how to talk to other people, though now you've been I'm sure you already know that Mason does work sheets with stories and then questions related to it.
I uploaded a pic of Mason to the gallery that his aide took. He wrote on the whiteboard with no help or prompting. https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...hp?photo=10016 He's been doing really well academically with school and I thought I'd share some of the good things for those of you going through the process of assessment ATM and are worried about what the future will be like for your kids!
. Seriously, its pulling teeth most of the time. I bought these jelly bear things that are concentrated veges that I give her periodically as well. We are 50% gluten free now... cutting down on it, but thats hard too!!
oh and carrots on the odd occasion...He hates sauces and if I put something new on his plate and it touches something he normally eats he tells me he cant casue it has germs. He use to love sausages but has gone off them now...he'll eat fish like there's no tomorrow and chicken every now and then, aslong as its the 'turkey drumstick'
Mason does work sheets with stories and then questions related to it. 
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