Day care

A nice byproduct - or so we think - of Wills lack of speech is his biting. We have had many instances of biting and a terrible experience at our previous child care centre. This new however is just brilliant. They were aware of his biting prior to enrolment and have engaged the services of special education support. My gosh, she was excellent. The hardest part at the moment for the staff and for Will is, his bites can be varies. They can be observed as frustration, as interactions, and as affection (like kissing).

So we are working on re-direction if we think he is going in for the kill, making him less reliant on touch (hard for a tactile boy) but making him wave hello, goodbye etc without touching the other kids, visual cues, special Will books etc.

At this stage, they are working on the development of the plan, it has to go through both the care centre and Adam and I. It it all negotiable with all of us, we are consulted all the way through the process.

So, progress is being made. It is making me feel very confident that Will is being supported in a positive light and that we can make steps to being bite free as well as increasing his speech development.

People who havent seen him lately, or dont see him as regularly are amazed at his progress, we dont see it as much as we are with him all the time. So again, things must be heading in the right direction!!