Social Pragmatic Language Therapy Class

A brief update on Love Bug. We still don’t have an official diagnosis, but the various professionals all seem to be aligning onto the sensory processing/high functioning autistic side of things and yeah, maybe there’s some attention issues, but mostly no. He is smart and quite a chatterbox with adults, but he is aloof, at best, with his peers and finds interacting with them to be very overwhelming. Thus far, the speech therapist who has been observing him in the classroom at daycare, thinks he should attend a social pragmatic language therapy class, where he will learn better social language to use with his peers. At this special classroom he will continue to be observed by the occupational therapist for further necessary services. He will be bussed from the daycare to the new special classroom every Tuesday for a good chunk of the day. I think he’s going to hate it. At least at first. Eventually he might like it, but I sense Tuesday’s might get tricky for us for a bit.  Generally speaking, he has been doing better at daycare, but there is still a lot of room for him to grow. But, with what we are working on now and his IEP, he should be in better shape to start kindergarten than if we had done nothing. He will begin the new speech therapy the end of February, after they come back from break.