Greetings dear and appreciated friends, happy day to all of you, today I want to share with all of you a little of what has been a joint work between the school and us at home.
The first years that I had the diagnosis I focused blindly on wanting my child to speak again, because I thought this was the most important and primordial, I think I really did not understand the situation and it was impossible for me to accept how to communicate with my little boy, how to understand him if he could not talk to me.
The truth is not easy and so far I have not given up and I do not lose hope that my little boy will speak again, but I have understood that my child is growing and it is necessary to teach him to be independent, and for my good luck this school year at school the theme of his project was personal autonomy, and as it was something that we had already advanced at home it has become easy for him and he has advanced in his practice.
At first I focused on teaching him to eat alone and use cutlery, at first I did not like to see him put his fork in his mouth and spill all the food, but with practice this was improving, now he eats with his cutlery, picks up his plate, takes it to the kitchen and washes his hands.
This has not been overnight, it has been a process but in which we have seen many advances, at school they worked on changing clothes, things that we also worked on at home, he already knew how to take off his shirt, pants and shoes, but this time they also taught him how to put on his shirt.
They also focused on teaching him to clean and pick up his work tools in the classroom, the truth is that this was a project that I loved and so it is a priority to work together, at home and at school from his early years.
Not all children are the same and therefore do not learn in the same way, I have learned that my son is very observant and detail-oriented, so much so that I have been surprised at times because there are things that I have not put myself to explain and teach him as such and he has learned from just watching me do it.
I will give you the following example, every morning he watches me fold the sheets and arrange the beds by placing the bedspread, a week ago I got up and while I was about to tidy the double bed I see him removing the pillows from his little bed and I left him alone to see what he intended to do.
My surprise has been that he has placed the Saturday and ordered his bed, then placed in order the pillows and left the room, since that day every morning I invite him to order the beds and so we have taken a new step.
Many will think that this may not help him in the future, but on the contrary, teaching him to be independent at home will help him to adapt and develop in society, mom may not always be there and it is necessary that children can learn to defend themselves alone
These are some pictures that their teacher sent me of their activities and others that we took of their project closing.
The content in this publication is completely original and all the photos are my own and were taken with my Redmi note 13 cell phone.