Tuesday May 1, 2018. We had a meeting with William’s current teacher Mrs. Hana Suh, speech Therapist Melissa, school district Meghan Yolles and his future teacher Heather Newman from Lincoln Elementary school to discuss about his transition to Summer and Fall school. It was only 30 minute meeting; and here’s the schedule:
May 31, 2018: last day at Mitchell Child Development center
June 11 – July 7, 2018: Summer School (Extended School Year ESY) – Martin Elementary (939 Wilshire Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92707) – Teacher Heather Newman. From 8 AM – 12:15 PM.
Aug 13 – Dec 2018: Fall School – Lincoln Elementary (425 South Sullivan St., Santa Ana, 92704) – Teacher Heather Newman. From 8 AM – 1 PM. Need to REGISTER before the school starts (bring IEP, Birth Certificate, Immunization Record, Proof of Home Address). William will go to this school until 5th grade.
Our boy is growing up fast, can’t believe he’s going to kindergarten!
Tuesday, 5:30 PM – 7:45 PM, ABA session with Ms. Jody from TasKids. William loves to play with the sand that she brought. He has been playing with it for a month now and still not bored yet.
1 PM. It was raining this morning, and now it’s kind of cool so I dressed William up with jacket and fleece-line pant. Today I brought him a corn dog; he finished about 1/3 of it; drank all the juice from the bottle and asked for more juice so I gave him the bottle that I packed for his daycare. He only had a few sips from this bottle though.
On the way to the day care, he felt asleep. With this cool weather, I want to sleep too. I wish that I don’t have to work so that I can drive him home, so that he can sleep in his comfortable bed.
William speech therapy session is now moved from Tuesday to Monday at 1:30 PM, which is much better that William doesn’t need to leave his class early. It’s Monday, Tim’s not working so he picked William up at Mitchell school and then took him to Providence Speech and Hearing Center ( Brookhurst and Bushard). William has new speech therapist; Ms. Kristi is no longer teaching William.
Today session mainly involves the functions of body parts: Nose is to smell, Eyes to see. At first William did not understand the questions but after the session, William knows how to respond to questions like “What’s Nose is for?”
Sunday evening, Dinner time. As usual, William sat on the chair on my left while we’re having dinner. He suddenly stood up, walked over to my right side, picked up the ceramic bowl and threw it on the floor; the bowl is broken into small pieces. Then he said, “It’s broken.”
He’s been using that phrase a lot, not sure where he learned it from. He’s been watching videos of the lego blocks, building, etc. that collapsed and point to it then said, It’s broken. There’s occasions where he tried to break the wheels of his small car toys and said it’s broken.
Obviously this has a very bad influence on him; I think to him it’s fun to watch things that are breaking apart. Maybe I should block the youTube videos that he’s been watching about broken things.
Sunday evening. William didn’t take a nap; and he looked bored so I took him to the Frog’s Bounce House in Fountain Valley, about 11 minutes away from our house. They charged me $10.00 this time, not sure why (Their website says after 6 PM, it’s $8:00 and no fees for parent). It’s Sunday so they close at 7PM, which means we only had 1 hour.
William still loves to dance around on the laser floor catching things projected on the floor. Then he went on to the bounce house near by but too bad it’s for 3 years old and under only so the lady worked there asked me to take him out. I told him to go to the other ones but he kept going back to this one.
TasKids sent in the schedule for this month April 2018 with Arron covers Mon, Wed, Fri from 5:30 – 7:45; and Jody covers Tues & Thur. from 5:30 – 7:45 as well. Jody also handles Parent Training on Mondays and Fridays (mostly to make up for the weeks that we did not have PC sessions).
At the daycare, Alexandra (I have not met her yet) covers Tues, Wed and Fri from 3-5 PM; and Jody covers only Thursday (3:15 – 5:15).
So now there are 4 staffs from TasKids in William’s case.
Supervisor: Anh Huy Nguyen.
Behavorial Technician: Jody, Arron & ALexandra.
Huy, is a young man, he’s with TasKids for 3 years but he’s been in the field for 6 years. He’s a very organized man. He put the schedule for home sessions in front of the binder so that we can easily know who will come on which day. He thinks ABEST had too many goals for William so he reduced that to a few. BT will still set 15 minutes for potty; and William has to sit for 1 minute. BT will show William the timer on their phone set to 1 minute. Then after that William needs to wash his hands.
Arron was supposed to start 2 weeks earlier but he was sick. He’s a very young man; I think there’s something wrong with his legs that he does’t walk normal. He always comes to our house with only the notebook in his hands: no toys at all. Other staffs always come with toys to use as re-enforcer but he doesn’t. I think that’s the reason why William keeps asking “I want Mama” and runs to the kitchen during his sessions because William is bored.
Jody, we first met her when she was with ABEST; she brought sand/sand tray, puzzles and other toys. William always loves sand so it’s naturally that he keeps asking for sand in her sessions. She uses it as the re-enforcer to ask him to solve the puzzle and read books. She brought 25 pieces puzzle which she knows is hard for William to solve; “The purpose is for William to ask for help, not to solve the puzzle.” – Jody explains.
Alexandra, covers at the day care only, called in sick the 2nd day (last week); and then this week. But then TasKids texted me saying that she felt much better so she could come this week! I have not met her but I heard from daycare staffs that Alexandra is more involved with William than Jody. She will also covers the morning sessions when William is at the day care full day.
I feel like TasKids don’t have enough staffs that they send us those are not in good health, besides Jody & Huy (I have no idea what sickness they have. ).
Communications with TasKids has been text messages; looks like it’s the method they prefer because I only got 1 phone call from Tailyn at the beginning, then after that they’re all text messages whenever there’s a schedule or staff change; which is fine with me.
TasKids did not even ask me to sign any paper works at all, which surprised me because with ABEST we had to at least sign the Client Services Agreement which lists all the things that we, as a client, should or should not do.
Another thing, ABEST policy does not allow BT to contact directly with us; TasKids on the other hand allows that, I got text messages from Jody and Alexandra when they wanted to cancel the sessions.
It’s not good or bad, it’s just my experiences with 2 different companies, and I just wanted to write it down.
Sunday evening. William didn’t take a nap; and he looked bored so I took him to the Frog’s Bounce House in Fountain Valley, about 11 minutes away from our house. They charged me $10.00 this time, not sure why (Their website says after 6 PM, it’s $8:00 and no fees for parent). It’s Sunday so they close at 7PM, which means we only had 1 hour.
