Last conversation with Megan - Dec 3rd

Here are my notes from my last consultation with Megan:
Liam

1. We said that there are days when Liam looks overwhelmed sensory wise. His sound sensitivity is high. He does not tolerate clothes. In those situations, Megan wants us to “give Liam more control” and lots of time in the playroom with us following his lead. I am convinced Liam will feel better with his senses very soon becuase we are moving to a new phase in the homeopathy at the end of December.
2. When Liam does not look overwhelmed, we can still challenge him. For example, he is LOVING the game of drawing on the whiteboard and writing sentences about the drawing. He talks like crazy and makes requests and is very engaged and his attention is completely in the game. I have pictures below of him with this whiteboard. He has played with several of you already.

3. Liam is asking “GIVE ME …” a lot, which is great. Keep celebrating and using also the other sentences in the other signs on his wall. Also, if there is a time you don’t understand him and he is saying “GIVE ME” but the rest is unclear, you can use sentences like “Liam, let’s slow down, I am not sure what you are saying”, “Let’s try again”, “Hold on”, “Could you speak a little slower?”. That way her realizes we are really trying to understand his sentence.

Dusya

1. Teach pronouns. She already knows several, but is confusing them sometimes. Megan told me to put signs on the wall with pronouns. When you talk, make two sentences, one without a pronoun and one with a pronoun. For example:

“The puppets are going to school” – “they are going to school”
“Zoe is hungry” – “She is hungry”
“Santa loves cookies” – “He loves cookies”

2. Megan things the throwing things from closets/shelfs could be an “ism”; she likes to create piles. I told her that it is all around the house and it takes time to clean. She says to put some boundaries to it in the playroom and more boundaries outside of the playroom. She says she should not contradict her with “No no no” and “yes yes yes yes” because that creates a power struggle. She says that if she complains or cries when cleaning up the messes, or when preventing the messes, we should say: “I hear you, but we don’t have a choice.”

3. When we cannot help Duchis immediately (specially outside of the playroom when were are busy with the other two kids), and she needs to wait, we should congratulate her and tell her “thank you so much for waiting”, “it is so important to learn to wait.”