Eventually she decided it was sleep time and came and called me upstairs. As soon as I was in my correct spot she went straight off to sleep! She has to have routine .... even to sleep.
Today she has speech therapy. This is doing great things! Kaylia now has the "L" sound nailed .... she can get it right reliably .... we now need to drill it to the point where she uses it correctly in everyday speech.
I had a beaut email from a friend this morning .... she reads this blog and among many other things she says .....
....."I know how you feel about the demise of your bobtail lizard. We had a quite tame black skink (like the ones you have) living with us in the shed in Albany. It would eat cherry tomatoes and pieces of fruit. Come winter it holed up in a piece of metal pipe out in the pile of “good stuff” you men folk seem to like to keep. Ken (landlord) was making a back for his ute and started welding his piece of pipe. There was a hell of a racket and scramble and out shot the poor skink. Unfortunately it passed away from its burns."
I was also asked .... "Is she up to conversations yet. How is the anxiety compared to a few years ago." Yes .... she likes to have a 'conversation' ..... a very "Kaylee version" though. It's mostly a set pattern involving what she likes to do and remember ..... but it satisfies her and she usually goes off to play after getting the attention she needs. It's hard to tell that it's what she wants and if we don't pick on the cues, then it can build up into a problem.
I was re-reading a bit of the blog from June 2010 this morning .... we were at a hotel in Nusa Dua ..... and her behaviour issues then were much, much worse at that time compared with now ... on a scale of 10, that time was about 8 or 9 .... and now it feels like 0 to 1 in comparison.
What does Naomi do that calms her down?? Much of it is preventative .... don't allow a situation to develop in the first place .... be aware of how she will react to things that are happening ...... and then remind her of the things that she can do to manage her own anxiety .... breathing exercises, diverting her attention to things that relax her. Stories and poems that she loves .... It constantly amazes me how she is calmed by the car ..... just sitting in the car is great ..... and going for a drive always helps her.
I had a beaut email from a friend this morning .... she reads this blog and among many other things she says .....
....."I know how you feel about the demise of your bobtail lizard. We had a quite tame black skink (like the ones you have) living with us in the shed in Albany. It would eat cherry tomatoes and pieces of fruit. Come winter it holed up in a piece of metal pipe out in the pile of “good stuff” you men folk seem to like to keep. Ken (landlord) was making a back for his ute and started welding his piece of pipe. There was a hell of a racket and scramble and out shot the poor skink. Unfortunately it passed away from its burns."
I was also asked .... "Is she up to conversations yet. How is the anxiety compared to a few years ago." Yes .... she likes to have a 'conversation' ..... a very "Kaylee version" though. It's mostly a set pattern involving what she likes to do and remember ..... but it satisfies her and she usually goes off to play after getting the attention she needs. It's hard to tell that it's what she wants and if we don't pick on the cues, then it can build up into a problem.
I was re-reading a bit of the blog from June 2010 this morning .... we were at a hotel in Nusa Dua ..... and her behaviour issues then were much, much worse at that time compared with now ... on a scale of 10, that time was about 8 or 9 .... and now it feels like 0 to 1 in comparison.
What does Naomi do that calms her down?? Much of it is preventative .... don't allow a situation to develop in the first place .... be aware of how she will react to things that are happening ...... and then remind her of the things that she can do to manage her own anxiety .... breathing exercises, diverting her attention to things that relax her. Stories and poems that she loves .... It constantly amazes me how she is calmed by the car ..... just sitting in the car is great ..... and going for a drive always helps her.
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