I'm the worst with updates

50 lashes for me! But no one has bugged me for updates so maybe its not that important ;) ?

3 months have past and it feels like just a few weeks, time is flying around here. Derek is making leaps and bounds, its so incredible. The TD-DMPS has gone perfectly. Each round shows us new words, actions and progress. I just spoke with his practitioner today and we are now going to add in the ALA.

We've been working on pulling together an ABA program for Derek. We have had initial approval that his insurance company might actually cover some of it. That's pretty huge as most companies won't even consider it. I'm still working with them on the language of the approval and what it needs to entail, but its a start. He's also been preliminarily accepted into a half day program through the school district. Its a small classroom of about 5 kids with similar levels of autism and 5 teachers. They do some 1:1 work and also group work. We hope that combined with in home ABA will provide the therapy he will need and we'll see some more progress.

In reading over the pasts posts I can see where another great improvement has happened. His sleep. While he still heads to bed pretty late at night, around 11pm, he either sleeps all night now, or wakes only to come crawl into bed with us. Oh and he's officially out of our room and on the bottom bunk in with his brother. Sleep is a huge hit in this house :-)

He knows his alphabet, numbers 1-20, most of his colors, about 8-9 different shapes and has begun to spell- CAT, DOG, PIG, COW are the main ones and he's working on MOM, DAD, BOOK. He can almost write all his letters too, though they are upside down and backwards. LOL He can draw some amazing things- a house, tree, flower, train and more. At this rate I will never want to play pictionary against him and his sister.

So there's a little update, maybe I'll get to another before another three months pass. ;)