Okay, well there have been a TON of changes in our neck of the woods over the past two months. I wrote back in December about Logan being diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder. Because we have a diagnosis our daycare was able to apply for state funding to get an inclusion teacher to work with Logan one on one. So basically whenever Logan is at daycare he has an inclusion teacher with him. It has been an absolute blessing. It is a husband and wife duo who are the most loving, kind patient people I have ever met in my entire life.
At the end of December Logan and I met with the same child psychologist at the Children's Center who helped us get him diagnosed. Her name is Kate by the way and she is freaking awesome! We talked about Logan and she went on to diagnosis him with anxiety, ADHD and possibly autism. She recommended we put him in the special needs group therapy preschool at the Children's Center for half a day FIVE DAYS A WEEK. Which would also mean he wouldn't get to go to his preschool at Mountain Shadows anymore.
This seemed totally extreme at first and not really something we wanted to do so we went home and prayed and talked and prayed and really watched Logan. And it hit Matt and I, this is the answer we have been searching for. Logan is the sweetest little guy but really, the past two years have been so incredibly hard and we have been searching for help and here it is. So we signed Logan up and he started January 20th.
So now Logan goes to daycare in the morning where he is met at the front by his inclusion teacher and given breakfast. The Children's Center bus comes to pick him up at 8:30 and drops him back off at daycare at 12:30 where he is again met by his inclusion teacher. The teacher stays with him until 5:00 when I pick him up. Oh, and on Tuesday afternoons we go over to the Primary Children's facility where he has occupational therapy to work on his SPD. And Logan and I meet with Kate twice a month go over Logan's progress.
We have been blown away by the amount of help we are getting. I just can't even believe it. The past month has been a bit rocky for Logan to adjust to his new schedule and I'm not going to lie, the Children's Center is a really tough little program. He comes home exhausted and crashes as soon as his head hits his pillow. The first few weeks he seemed more grumpy but he has since fallen into a routine and gets excited to go to his school each day.
The goal is to have Logan out of the Children's Center program in six months and have him be able to interact in his normal daycare class without so many incidents. I know we are at the beginning of all of this and have a long way to go but I'm just so glad we are going somewhere.
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