"Go check your schedule!"

Have I mentioned that we have awesome teachers? At his IEP meeting last week, I asked if I could take a look at the picture schedule they were using since I was also hoping to get some ideas to use at home, and she said Bitty was doing really well with it in class. Sure enough, when we went to look, he excitedly said, "go day-ga deh-goh!" (go check your schedule).

She actually offered to make us one for home if I sent her a list of words we'd want pictures for. She said she has a software program that makes it fairly quick and easy. We got the pictures yesterday, she laminated and velcro'd them for us, and gave us a velcro strip like they use in class to stick them to. It's so cool! And Bitty loves it, he stands there taking the pieces off and putting them back on, he loves having a visual schedule and it's great to have something that is consistent with what he uses at school.

Here's a picture of today's schedule - I did half a day at a time, then took those down and put the rest of the day up. Bitty was so excited this morning when he came into the kitchen to find his daily schedule all set up :). The first one is supposed to be "wake up" but he thought it was "bedtime" so I may not use that one for a while. There's a separate one for bedtime, with the eyes closed. We had an activity at church this morning, and went to the park after that. The weather has been beautiful, way too nice to stay indoors :).

I have a little photo album I'm going to put some velcro in and then we can take picture schedule pieces on the go too :).

I was back at the school this past week for curriculum night, and Bitty's teacher showed the parents the "green, yellow, red" charts she uses in class and talked about how all the kids are motivated to have their picture stay on green (it's another velcro chart). She had several of them around the room and offered to let the parents take some home if we thought it might be helpful. Another set of parents and I took her up on the offer. So far I've already used it once, Bitty started rolling around on the kitchen floor throwing one of his fits, and I went to the chart, pulled his picture off of green, and said (in my "mean mama" voice), "Do I need to put this on yellow??" He immediately stopped crying and said "no!" Wow...

It doesn't work without the visual though. He threw a fit today at our church activity and telling him I was going to move him to yellow (or even red) did absolutely nothing. I didn't have the chart with me, maybe I should start carrying around a smaller version of that too? Hmm...

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