We are scheduled!

I've been calling Children's almost daily and had yet to get ahold of anyone! There was a lady I was supposed to call for the appointment but day after day of leaving messages, she'd either not return my call or she'd call during the 5 minutes it would take me to drive from our house to the school and back. After a frustrating parent teacher conference (more on that later) I called again and this time after getting the machine, I redialed and requested the appointment desk. I was extremely lucky that one of the Drs had a cancelation so we got in for the day after Thanksgiving. Its definately not the most ideal date and way across town but we'll take it!

Now about the conference....it started off good. Her teacher told us how advanced Payton is! Yeah Payton! The good portion was short lived however and quickly turned to "Payton NEEDS to start talking. Here we go again! She told us it would be okay if my mom was there for the next round of testing but she was going to sit at the table, instead of back a ways this time. She said the May testing she would not allow my mom to be there and she wants Payton to start doing simple request such as "I need to go to the bathroom" etc. We went around about how Payton really CAN'T control this. I don't think he teacher quite gets it still! Her teacher is doing a few things right though. She's allowing Payton to participate in group activities by drawing and she's including her in reading groups etc. We agreed that maybe moving her next to two of the girls Payton really seems to like that maybe they will form a friendship and Payton will start talking to them. I'm hoping the therapy is going to really help Payton but I'm not holding out hope that she will talk THIS year...hopefully in the next school year though.

Lastly, I found a great site for SM books. They are priced MUCH cheaper then Amazon! I ordered "The Silence Within" and the Supplemental book for $31 with shipping! Yeah!! I'm going to give the teacher copy to Mrs. S and hope we can use it as a tool to get a better communication system going.

Here's the website for the books....
http://www.selectivemutism.org/resources/abookstore