Day: October 29, 2021

Important Events

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Nov 24, 2013:  William was born at Fountain Valley hospital.

Jan 2014 – Jan  2015:  William was sent to Babysitter at Mrs. Loan’s House (Westminster) when he was 2 months old because Mom had to go back to work.

Apr 13, 2014: William was baptized when he was 4 months old at La Vang Church, Santa Ana, California by Father Bảo Thai.  William’s Holy name is Paul.

Jan 2015 – Nov 16, 2015: Stayed home with Dad because Dad was laid off from work.

Nov 16, 2015 – Aug 16, 2019:  Day care at Children’s World Preschool in Westminster, CA.  He started at the daycare two weeks before he turned 2 years old (because Dad came back to work).  He goes 5 days a week from 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM.  Mom drops him off and Dad picks him up.

When he started school on 11/28/2016, Mom picked him up from school then drove him to the day care and then went back to work.  For those days that are no school, he’d spend the whole day at the day care.

From 8/20/2019, his aunt Lily picks him up from school then babysit him at our home until we get home from work.

Nov 28, 2016 – May 31, 2018: Mitchell Child Development Center in Santa Ana, CA because he’s diagnosed with Autistic.  He’s 4 years old as of May 31, 2018.  This is a special education school for children with Speed Delay.  The school principle is Mr. Bello . His first school teacher is Mrs. Hana Suh at room 309.  School schedule is from 8:15 AM – 1:10 PM.  Hot breakfast and lunch is provided.  At 8:30 AM, there will be DTT (discreet training trile)  session for 30 minutes.  And there’s 15 minutes a week for Speech therapy.  So in the morning he goes to Mitchell school;  Mom picks up at 1:10 and then drops him off at Children World Preschool; Around 5:30 Dad comes and picks him up at the day care.

May 2017 – Feb 2018: ABA sessions with ABEST.

Feb 13, 2018 – Sept 2021: Started Speech therapy at Providence Hearing and Speech Center, Fountain Valley branch; every Monday for 30 minutes.

Apr 2018 – Now: ABA sessions with TasKids.

  • Supervisor: Huy Nguyen (4/2018-3/2019), Elizabeth (4/2019-now)
  • PC: Jody Nguyen (4/2018-now)
  • BT:  Alex, Anthony, Brenda (5/2019-9/7/2019), Thomas (4/2018-now), Maria (9/5-now)
  • 8/2021: Thomas became ABA supervisor, Mari is the BCBA, and BT is Marilou.

Aug 2018 – Apr 2020: Australian Swim School, once a week, 30 minutes per session.

Aug 2018 – Oct 2020: Abraham Lincoln Elementary school (Santa Ana) in Special Ed class.

  • Transition Kindergarten (2018-2019) : 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Room 54.  Teachers: Mrs. Newman Heather, Ms. Birdie, Ms. Sandy.  The class has about 7 children, all boys.  Breakfast, Lunch is provided.  The school is right by our house so we walk to school every morning.  Then pick him up by car and take him to Children’s World Preschool so that I can go back to work.
  • Kindergarten 2019-2020:  8:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Room 54.  Teachers: Mrs. Newman Heather, Ms. Birdie, Ms. Sandy.  The class has about 7 children, all boys.  Breakfast, Lunch is provided.  The school is right by our house so we walk to school every morning.  Then pick him up by car and take him to Children’s World Preschool so that I can go back to work.  Starting 8/20/2019 Aunt Lily picks him up and then takes him home and babysit him until we get home.  This arrangement is really great for William because he can sleep on his own bed until 4 PM or 5 PM.  Aunt Lily loves him; she always brings something for him to eat after school (pizza, mac & Cheese, noodle soup) before let him go to bed.
  • Sept 2019 – Mar 2020: kindergarten, in person class
  • Mar 2020 – May 2020: kindergarten , online class due to Covid-19 pandemic.  William did not get to have the Kindergarten Graduation, not even a picture! :(.
  • Jun 2020 – July 2020:  Summer school, kindergarten, online class due to Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Sept 2020 – Oct 2020: 1st grade, online class due to Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Mrs. Newman said William is much more advance in math and reading than his classmates so she transferred him to Thomas Jefferson elementary school which has “moderate” level.

Nov 24, 2020: William is 7 years old.  Because of Covid-19, no gathering is allowed inside so William did not have a birthday party.

Nov 2020 – Nov 2021: Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (Santa Ana) in Special Ed class

  • Mr. Castaneda, Ms. Crystal & Ms. Dora
  • Nov 2020 – May 2021: on line class due to Covid-19 pandemic; first grade.
  • Jun 2021 – July 2021: Summer school, in person
  • Aug 2021 – Now: In person, 2nd grade, room #4.

 

 

IEP 2021

Posted on by MICHELLE N

It’s time for William’s IEP (Individualized Education Program); it has been 1 year since William moved to Mr. Castaneda class at Thomas Jefferson elementary school.   I still remember how shocked I was when Mrs. Newman proposed that William should be transferred to this school because he was doing so good in class).   How time flies!  William is gonna turn 8 years old next month and is in 2nd grade.

With the Covid-19 pandemic is still going on, the IEP this time hosted by Mr. C was thru the zoom meeting just like last year (which was hosted by Mrs. Newman at Lincoln elementary school).  This time we have Mr. Catenada (Special Ed teacher), Ms. Linday (OT), Ms. Karen (speech), Mrs. Karen (General Education 2nd grade), Mr. Eric Merrit (vice principal)  andThomas (ABA supervisor from TasKids).

Yesterday Mr. C and Ms. Lindsay (Occupational Therapist) called to briefly tell me how William’s doing.  Mr. C made my day by telling me that William is doing so good with math so he’s gonna send William to a general education class, 2nd grade with Ms. Maureen for 1 hour math session; and Ms. Crystal will go with William to support him.    He also said William is good at reading too, but he wants him to try Math in normal class setting first to see how he’s doing there.   It’s such a great news to me; and I’m so proud of William.

Ms. Lindsay (OT) said that William is making so much progress on holding the pencil, he prefers to write in upper case but she noticed that if she gave him the adapted paper with visual cues, he’d write correctly with lowercase letters.  So she thinks William no longer needs OT every weeks any more; she proposed once a month for this coming year.

Ms. Karen (speech) said that William still has issue with the L letter, especially if it stands in the middle; he says it correctly if L is at the beginning of the words; so she’ll continue to work with him on that.

One other thing Mr. C mentioned that in the class he’d sit still for 30 minutes without standing up and wandering around the house like he did when we had online class.  I was so surprised to hear that cuz William I know can never stay still for few minutes, unless he’s watching iPad.

The meeting concluded in half an hour later, then I drove William to school.  We got the tardy yellow slip for being late with the “Excused” mark from the school office.  It’s Costume Day at school but he refused to wear any costume; we brought some candies for him to share with his classmates.