The last entry was before the start of the new school year, and I was fairly nervous about the kid I was going to be working with. Now, we're almost two months in, and things are going pretty well. He's certainly a challenge, with being nonverbal and physically disabled. Add to that a hearing loss and the terrible threes and I've got my hands full lol.
He turned three the second week of school, and since then has held fast to the terrible threes stage. The last couple weeks have been quite an experience, for a while I was the main target for biting and behaviors like hitting, pinching and pulling out his hearing aids; I've gotten to be an expert in putting those back in his ears. We took a field trip to a pumpkin farm, where I really got acquainted with the notion of carrying a 30-pound three year old around on my hip all day in a sling. I'm getting pretty good at holding him and bending to get things.
He has a new therapeutic device called Theratogs, a little suit that pulls his legs apart to walk and increases upper body tone. The bad part is it takes 30 minutes to put him in it, I have to teach everyone else in the room how to change him because it has to be disassembled, and now changing requires two people and fifteen minutes. Oh well, as long as it's benefiting him I shouldn't complain. We've been experimenting with his walker, and he performs great with the PT, but with me he's lazy and pushes himself off on his toes. His mom got him the perfect Halloween costume: a skunk, with "Little Stinker" on the butt lol.
