Vision Therapy is great!!

We recently started Vision Therapy with the most amazing therapist Colleen. We've often had great therapists but she stands out. She's so patient and intuitive. She's also brilliant. She's constantly thinking of novel ideas to help Brady. We've seen a HUGE improvement in eye contact since he started VT. He'll look at you deeply and longly. Sometimes his gaze will brief but end with a big smile. Those are awesome and often bring me to tears. He's far-sighted and has various other vision issues so he wears glasses. He looks so freaking handsome in his glasses too!

Since he started VT he's trying to catch a ball. Before he would stand there and let it bounce off his chest. Colleen explained that to Brady the ball was two dimensional and that it looked like a paper ball coming at him and he didn't understand to catch it. Now he tries, often late but that's ok. You start somewhere right?! He also clearly enjoys throwing the ball to us. It's cute because he gets excited.

He's such a loving kid. He wants her to hug and kiss on him all throughout the session. He smiles a lot too. While it sucks he can't talk we consider ourselves lucky to have a child with autism who seeks our love and attention and a child who rarely, if ever, acts out against others in anger.

Look soon for a post on his Springboard Lite!
And coming to you tomorrow......PottyTraining! Wish us luck!

Angela

Look how smart Brady is!!!!!!

So I was playing with Brady in the basement the other night. I had a magnetic board with numbers and letters. I thought I'd try something. I gathered up the letters for his name and put the B and the Y in place. I gave him the rest of the letters and he put them in the right spot. Afterwards I did only the B and he spelled his name!! YAY! Then I tried his numbers and he got 1-9!! It's funny because sometimes he'll go in the exact order, but sometimes he'll go out of order but always has them right in the end. You'll see what I mean in the first video.

OH NO....POTATO CHIPS!!!!!!

No need for details. Just know that Brady was able to get his hands on some potato chips Wednesday at school. Within two hours of being home he had yellow mucousy diarrhea. I know it's TMI but the amount of mucous was crazy. I explained to Robin that Brady's gut was experiencing inflammation from the chips and the mucous was it's way of protecting itself.

This infraction told me one thing. We are on the right track with SCD. Sometimes slips like that are the reassurance that you need to know you're doing the right thing.

And I don't think that mistake will happen again.

Tonight he ate a tiliapi fillet fried with almond & cashew flour, and boiled carrots. He ate nearly all of it very willingly. I've been slacking in pushing more meats and veggies. I'm going to make a more concious effort of that starting tomorrow.

Moderate Fat in his stools

Possibly indicative of malabsorption. Most likely. I told the ped I did not think he was digesting his food.

However that will all change with SCD.