school

I had a surprise meeting with Av's teacher on Wed. So glad I am making the effort to be there every week. I kind of dread it but once I get there I love it. Anyway it was time to review her yearly speech goals and her SLP called her teacher in! It was great but I was scared as to what I was going to hear. Not prepared and didn't have the support of J. As far as speech goes she is improving. Still pretty delayed to where she should be but her test scores have improved so that is wonderful!! She went from a 43 to 59. Progress is progress and we could not be happier about that. Her teacher showed us some work Av has been doing it and was all pretty great. She had missed 2 on one of them but otherwise really good. Her teacher says speech is not an issue in the classroom right now. They are understanding her and her friends don't see an issue. She talks right up in class when asked and asked for help. So our fears of her being a wall flower are gone. She is delayed in speech though, she does not say sounds right so it will prob hinder reading a lot. Her teacher just stressed to us that the best thing we can be doing for her is reading, reading, reading. All types of books. Longer picture books but also baby type books. Those are great for sight reading. She said read the same books over and over again. As long as Av wants to hear the book read it. It helps them become successful with knowing the book so "reading" the book. Her writing is going to be our biggest problem though. She knows her letters but her fine motor control is just such an issue. She is doing so WELL though. The day after I had this meeting and had been worrying about her writing I took her to OT. The letters she wrote there on her work sheets were almost perfect. She can do it. We will get her there. Her teachers just told us to have her writing. Practice all the time. Av is wanting to as well. She has a notebook that she is writing in all the time including on the bus. It's great. While I'm in the kitchen she has been sitting at the island writing words for things that are going on. The other day we had her writing Happy Birthday Camille and October. We have been told not to spell for her and help her sound it out. So reading and writing words will be our focus. Those are the 2 things that will help her be successful more than anything. We will get there. We always do. It will just take some hard work but we are up for it.