weeks 17 & 18.

I have been a bit behind on everything lately. Stress combined with a busy schedule does that to me.
Last week therapy was very successful! Emmett was happy and compliant the whole time. He was dishing out full sentences left and right with Zena and didn't throw a thing! He loved the games they played together and she didn't need to prompt him very much. She was very pleased with him and the session.
OT went great as well. Teanna gave Emmett a massage and dimmed the lights again. She also had him do more therapeutic listening. He was very cooperative. She worked on motor skills by having Emmett clap the bubbles as she blew them. She wanted him to clap his hands evenly together. Then she had him work on a Light Bright toy (loved those as a kid!), which was great for fine motor skills. I was also able to talk with a financial counselor about options for us through Children's after our insurance stops.

This week Matt had to take Emmett to therapy on his own because I was in South Dakota. So I am documenting based on what he told me. Emmett did not do as well this week in therapy. Matt thought it could have been because I was gone or because he had to go pee and it was bothering him. Speech went okay, but he only made it through half of OT before having a meltdown. He became overstimulated trying a new activity where he had to blow through a straw to move a golf ball across the floor. He also wasn't as tolerant of the therapeutic listening.
We may have an opportunity to get our own therapeutic listening system to have at home. This would be very beneficial for Emmett and would be a big blessing for him. We are working with Teanna to have her write up a grant to get approval for one.
Matt also took Emmett to his appointment at Fraser. They ran a short diagnostic on him, asked a ton of questions and made Matt fill out another long questionnaire. These never end. The appointment went well and now we have to wait until there is some availability at Fraser for Emmett to have a spot there.    

We received the psychology assessment report in the mail this week. Dr. Mary did diagnose Emmett with autism like we expected. The report describes in detail why she made this diagnosis and gave us his IQ test results. This is hard to look at, as it was when he had an IQ test through special ed. I am trying not to focus on the numbers right now.