Ryan's Progress

Can you believe Ryan has graduated from pre-school? It is so hard to believe that he actually is going to Kindergarten this coming Fall. He has done remarkable well within one and a half year.

Both my husband and I have witnessed the positive changes in Ryan while he was in Pre-school. When he first started attending Pre-school, he would scream, shut his eyes, being so aloof, and threw things up in the air such as shoes and toys. It was extremely difficult for us to see our son having bad times, but we had a faith that he would make a room for an improvement.

During his first winter performance, he was shy and unable to sing. But this has changed to being able to sing the Winter/Spring songs, even “1, 2, 3 Flying Birds.” At his Pre-school graduation. he even could answer the teacher’s questions in a front of the ceremony, “ Tell me what is your name, What is your favorite thing about school? What do you want to be when you grow up?” (I’ve put in McClellan’s Media: Ryan’s Graduation Speech)

Between his first sixth month of school to now, Ryan started picking the words up by saying from two to eight words in a sentence. (Just remember he has Persuasive Development Disorder- Non- Known as Autism with 18 months of speech and language delay.) It is a slow progress but he does speak a lot more clearly lately. At most of the times, it is easy for people to understand if he speaks louder.

Few examples he would say:
1) I cut hair with scissors (He did a night before and he was very impressed with himself that he did.)

2) Thank you, Mrs. Morales for getting me my favorite corn.

3) Hey Ginger, do you want to watch Winnie the Pooh with me? (He grabbed her hands when they first greeted each other.)

4) It’s time to get up Tiggers. I want to see my Tiggers. (That’s the name of his class group. He wanted to wake them up from kids’ nap.)

5) Hey Mrs. Morales, Wake up, Lazybones! (She was pretending to take a nap)

His socialization has improved a lot. Just remember that last year, he only would play by himself almost all day. Now, he would sit and play with his classmates for a longer period of time. He even came up to a new student who was crying on his first day of school. Ryan took this new student's hands, “Come here. It is okay. You will be okay.” Isn’t that cute? He even applauded to the other students when playing basketball, “Good Job, that was great.” That was because he often hears from me, teachers, and his speech therapist.

His academic skills are incredibly good when it comes to a lot of visual pictures while he is weak on his logical concepts. As a proud parent, he is the only ones know how to spell the calendar months without looking at the calander, recognizes the numbers up to 100, and few other related academics.

It means a lot to us that the teachers at the Grey Rabbit Pre-School put a lot of their patience for my sons, Dylan and Ryan, who attended this school, especially Ryan. Thank you staff at The Grey Rabbit Pre-School. Salutation !

Frankly, David and I do not have any regrets for putting him in a small private school for the last one and a half year. That is my strongest philosophy to put him in a small mainstream classroom because it enhances a child's overall performance even with a slight disability. Without doubt, that makes BIG differences in his life: speech/language, socializing and interacting. That’s something we always are grateful that God has put it in our hands. We continue to believe that he would continue to make progresses through by my help, his future teachers and the people who love him.