Category: Education

After School

Posted on by MICHELLE N
William is 4 years old.

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.

Love you son!

Speech Therapy 8th Session

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Mon 4/16/2018

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?”

Speech Therapy 6th Session

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Today both Ms. Kristy and Stephanie came out the door to greet William but only Ms. Stephanie conducted the session while Ms. Kristy working on her computer.   William learned to use the word “See”.  Stephanie showed him the card with picture on it and asked William to say what he saw on the cards.

I see dolphins, I see hamburger, I see pineapple, I see banana, I see skateboard, I see raccoon, I see computer.

“We’re gonna play a game!” – Stephanie told William.  She took out the cards, showed 3 cards to William and asked a question.  William was supposed to point to the correct card.

Where do you sleep? She showed 3 cards with different picture on each card: bed, the banana and ocean.  William pointed to the BED picture.  He got it right so Jennifer handed him the light-up ball to play for few seconds.

The game continued:  where do we seat? Chair.  What can you catch? Ball.  What do you eat with? Spoon.

Session always flew by so fast!

Last Day with ABEST

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Last 4 days with Ms. Han and Tracy at the day care

Today, Friday,  is the last day William has the session at the day care with ABEST; Ms. Tracy is the BT today.  Today concludes 9 months of receiving services from ABEST.  I’d say we’re very pleased with the services that ABEST provided; I’m really sad that all the good staffs left and that we have no choice to find a new vendor.

Saying good bye to the people that we love is always hard.   I waited on Thursday at the day care to see Ms. Han to say good bye to her;  I prepared to express our appreciation to her but when I saw her, just the thought of not seeing her again brought tears to my eyes so all I could say was “Thank You Em” while giving her a hug and then I turned around to get back into my car.  I sat there an watched her walking thru the side door of the school to get into William’s classroom.  Ms. Han replied “I like William a lot!”.

I wish that we have some pictures of William and all ABEST staffs but with school policy of no photos/videos, we don’t have any pictures at all.  Monday 3/12/2018 Ms. Nhu will come to pick up the binder; and that will be the last person from ABEST that we see.

Ms. Han’s notes from the session
Ms. Han’s notes from the session
Ms. Annie’s notes from her last session with William at the day care, dated 1/25/2018.

Speech Therapy 4th Session

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William plays with Play Doh, making star and snow man.

Tuesday 12:00 PM. Today we met Staphanie again; Kristie was not there.  William first got to play with Play Doh and make snow man.  He requested to make snow man about 3 times.  Then Stephanie got out the little house, bed, doll, pillow, blanket, bathtub, table, chair, etc. and asked: where does the bed go? can you put the baby to sleep, what do we do with the bathtub? William especially liked the pillow and blankets, he put the blanket over the doll.

All the time I thought the play house is for girls, never thought a boy can also learn from it.

Putting the correct figures on the board that has pictures.

Speech Therapy – 3rd Session

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William and Stephanie

12:00 PM at Providence Hearing and Speech center.  Today Stephanie used a book and asked William to identify the object (while Ms. Kristie worked at her desk); he could answer most of them.  Some questions like “Whose food is this?” William did not understand.  30 minutes passed by really fast.

The corner where they conduct the session.

Speech Therapy – 2nd Session

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William and Ms. Kristy

Tuesday 12:00 PM.  Took William to his second session of Speech Therapy at Providence Hearing and Speech Center in Fountain Valley.  The session was only 30 minutes, the first 20 minutes was in the room, the next 5 minutes was in the gym and the last 5 minutes was for the therapist to take notes (which means we left after the gym, which was about 12:25 PM).

When we got in the room, Ms. Kristy let him sat in the small chair and buckled him up (so that he doesn’t run around).  She taught him the concept of TOP and UNDER.  Also, he had to ask for things “I NEED ….”.   She also introduced the functionality of things “What does it do?”, “An airplane fly”…

William tried to unbuckle the straps a few times but could not.

The gym

When in the gym, William had to ask for things he wanted to play “I want swing”, etc.

Mitchell School’s New Look

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After about 7 months under construction, the school is now has a new beautiful look.  William’s classroom still remain the same; the new building is mostly for front desk, principle office, nurse office and other administrative staffs.

Now we don’t have to walk that far to get to the class anymore; and because William is so excited with the new building he has not asked for the stroller; and he’s willing to walk.