Test #2

Honeybunches had a pretty good morning at school.  His teacher wrote in his communication book for today that "Around 1:00 he became very silly and irritated.  He refused to go to PT... He kept laughing and then became very irritated.  For his own safety Mrs P (Class aide who is restraint trained) and I escorted him to the time out space.  He settled down after about 10 minutes.  He came back and was fine."

So two school days in a row he's needed to use the time out space.  :(  I had emailed the teacher with a response to what she wrote in the communication book on Friday (Which I posted here.)  I told her that Honeybunches has a hard time expressing his feelings with words.  I asked her to keep me updated on if objects talk to him and if he has more incidents with talking about people being dead so I can let his pdoc know.  I told her how he was testing to see what he can get away with now that Mr. N is gone. I asked if he realized that they cleared the room because of him.  I let her know how if he did realize that, it could have given him the control that he longs to have.  I reminded her how he reads into body language, so if he can see somebody is upset, nervous, frustrated or mad he will likely do whatever he was doing even more.  I told her that it's best to stay calm but let him know you are serious.

His teacher wrote back saying "I don't think he realized that I cleared the room because of him.  I stayed very calm and neutral while I was talking to him because I knew if I got a reaction it was all over. I will definetly let you know of any talk that is concerning. I think stabbing the paper made him feel better in a funny kind of way. I am hoping we passed the test so things can get back to normal and now that we have had a frost we should be able to go out for recess.  This should help too.  I will feel better when Mrs. T has had restraint training.  They give a lot of valuable de-escalation tactics so it does not get to the point of restraining....I will keep working on getting him to talk when he is angry or upset. I think he is beginning to understand the power of words... "

I sure will be glad when Mrs. T his new aide has restraint training too!  Because he was struggling again today, I wonder if that means they failed his test on Friday?  We shall see I guess... I'm glad that we have the IEP meeting coming up next week on the 24th.