Tuesday evening, ABA Session with Ms. Jody as usual.
Which book do you want to read? Ms. Jody asked
Rosie! – William responded without thinking.
Last year when I brought the books into the room; he would throw them out the door and close the door. Now he loves to read the books; and we read book every night on our bed before he goes to sleep.
The book “Rosie Comes to Preschool” is long but he always wants to finish the book. He know about 80% of the words in the book.
Fri 5:30 PM, ABA session with Aaron as usual. Today William actually played the game and followed the rules. Before he just likes to hold the cards and, that’s it!
This is how it looks when Tim picked him up from school. From the pic, it doesn’t look as bad but it’s really bad!
Wednesday. William was sent home today with a big dark bruise on his face below the right cheek with a note that he had an accident! According to the note he was trying to jump off the Merry Go Round and slipped and hit his face on the metal bar.
Ms. Jeannie from TasKids was there with him at the time of the accident.
Today, it’s 6th day and the bruise still bad. When I touched it gently and asked him if it hurts but he did not say anything.
The Merry-Go-Round that William loves to play with everyday.Report from Ms. ChastityMerry-go-round pic taken from the other side of the playground1 day later, the bruise is starting to get darker.
Today we met the new BT who’s supposed to be with William at the daycare to replace Alexandra who quits a week ago. I got home around 6:00 PM and I heard the music, which is very unusual; turns out it was from Jeanie’s phone, William’s new BT. Jody said William was singing along when she played the Trolls song.
Jeanie seems to be a very nice young lady and really is interested in finding about what’s William doing and likes.
Monday evening, we had ABA session with Arron and PC with Jody. Last week Jody mentioned that William seems to like the books a lot so she suggested that we should go to the library; so we planned for that to happen today.
Around 6:00 PM we Jody, Arron, William and I went to the New Hope library (in separate cars) which only 7 minutes from our house. We practiced holding hand while walking on the walk way. Once in the library we asked William to pick out the book, he picked a random one without looking at it; and then refused to pick any other book. He did sit down for 3 minutes while Arron reading the book to him. Then he stood up, walked around; at some point running and talking very loud.
I opened the library membership and we got to check out 2 books today: A pop-up book Red Car Blue Car and The Best Birthday Party. I read these book to him late at night and he seemed to like it: he didn’t ask for Baby Jesus or Zoo Animals which have been his favorite books for months.
He does seem to like listening to book reading; I think going to the library is a fantastic idea. I’ll try to take him to the library on the weekends when they have story telling time.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
Tuesday 2:00 PM. Today was the first day for the supervisor Huy and BT Jody from TasKids to come to day care so after I dropped William off and sent him to his tiny bed in his classroom, I waited for the supervisor Huy and BT Jody in my car. And guess who the BT was? It was Jody who used to work for ABEST! She came to our house a few times to supervise when we were with ABEST. What a lovely surprise!
William with Ms. Jody at home session
I was so happy with a comfort feeling that William will be in good hands with someone that he’s familiar with. I was afraid that with new BT, William might not get along well but that feeling soon went away when I saw Jody. It turns out Arron is sick; and Holly is no longer with the company so Ms. Jody will be with him everyday at the daycare and at home too!
