Gym time

Our school's speech therapist goes way beyond her job title for Thomas.  Since he doesn't need speech therapy, he actually speaks extremely well, he goes to her for one on one help with any area he is struggling with a few times a week.  The speech therapist is currently practicing gym with Thomas in her office.  They practice what will happen in gym for the next week.   They practiced Turkey bowling 2 weeks ago and then had the gym teacher come to her office, so he could practice with them.  We are so lucky that the staff is so amazing and are willing to do this!  Last week Thomas decided he wanted to go to gym and stayed for the entire time and played turkey bowling.  This was the first time ever!  We will continue to do this strategy.  He did not want to stay for gym today, but due to the holiday weekend, he never had a chance to practice for this week’s gym.  We will keep working on this.  I also gave him a red card and green card to take to gym.  Since he sometimes has trouble communicating in this setting, these cards can relay to the teacher whether he wants to stay or go.  He is comfortable using them and did so today.