Tonight Bede followed the directions in a kids’ activity book! My mom called me a few minutes ago to tell me about it. We ate dinner at my folks’ house as we usually do on Sundays and Bede was writing one of those books for quite a while. She was flipping through it and looking at what he’d written, and came to a page that said “Draw two wheels on each car. How many wheels are there?”
Bede had drawn two wheels on the five cars on the page (which is new, he doesn’t draw as much as he writes) and then wrote “TEN” next to them.
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While he’s had those cognitive skills for some time (Bede has no noticeable cognitive delay) he has never followed directions like that before, ever. Maybe all this poop sensory seeking stuff is due to some new neural pathways a-forming.
I think it’s time for some fun social stories.
wtg bede!
here are some ready made social stories:
http://www.fcps.edu/ss/its/howtos/socstor/socstories.htm
i use some every once in a while for my boys in social skills group. some are good, others are eh. i’ve also got access to boardmaker so if you’d like anything made, let me know!
Awesome!