Well I have to tell yall, we are very excited at our house. Ben has self initiated completely on his own the last 3 days!
)& For those of you not familiar with what I mean; HE HAS GONE TO THE BATHROOM ALLLLLLLL BYYYY HIMMMMSELFFFFF THE LAST 3 DAYS!!!!!!
We are still seeing lots of stemming but his vocalization has taken a leap, we are teaching him to sign his name and teaching him to say his name and tell you what it is when you ask him, we have also implemented him starting to name all of us.
I put him back on Cortef last thursday, Nov 9th, because the excessive stemming usually means something isnt firing or working quit right and it is normally some type of inflamation systemically that is the culprit.
We are very excited he is following instructions MUCH better in the last week. Simple instructions, he will be setting in the chair with his Dad eating raisins, craisins, walnut, and pecans and when they finish up the bowel Bob tells him to put it in the sink and he gets up and takes the bowel and puts it in the sink. He is starting to put stuff in the trash when told and he will put his own underwear own in the bathroom when you lay them on the sink after he gets thru using the restroom. He is just doing SO many things! Little things that you wouldnt pay any attention to in your home but they are HUGE steps here. He is closing the door when he walks out of the house. When he went to put his plate in the sink after eating Friday night his fork fell on the floor and with the plate in one hand, he reached down and picked up the fork and put BOTH of them in the sink. I know, this sounds silly to you but these are BIGGGGGGGGGGG steps for him. We didnt tell him to do that, he did it ALLL ONNNNNNN HISSSS OWNNNNNN!!!!!