Juliet was his first facilitator today, and told us that almost a year after his last intensive, she was amazed by how much he had changed. She said he knew more about Monopoly than her, and in general, too it took her some time to figure out what his current challenges are!
He taught Amanda rules of cricket, and then the two went on to discuss weights of different people in kgs and pounds:-)
A little later he was playing with his old friend Camila, and she noted down a number of cool things about him as a person which he volunteered:-) (Used to be his goal.) They also had lunch together in the playroom.
Aai and Baba then took turns playing, and got extremely helpful, spot-on feedback from our senior teacher William!
Aditya then had a blast playing with Michelle making food on a toy cooker/stovetop (talking about food being another huge motivation for our little guy)!
At the end of the day, old friend Susan played Aditya's amazing game of $550 Bank (telling each other challenging things to do and then rewarding each other with any amount between $1 and $550.99!) She then brought out her game of reading clues and guessing which animal, where the winner would get to act like the animal. Aditya was adorable wearing the tiger hood and the horse head! (He would have refused to do anything like this a year ago.)
After all facilitators left, Aai and Baba had fun looking inside the toilet flush tank (with Aditya peeking) and then testing out if a basketball can actually get flushed away by the toilet (with Aditya upset about it and telling us a clear NO about it which we celebrated and honored). Both of these he is paranoid about. This fear manifests itself in him not wanting to use any toilet except his own home.
Aditya had also made cards especially for all his facilitator he knew were going to play with him, so the staff members at Son Rise who are full of 3E's got even more reasons to celebrate him.
All in all, a great beginning to our second intensive!
:D This is fantastic Ahbi! You guys are doing amazing things with Adi. It's so nice to hear about all the facilitators and remember who we had working with us when we were there.
ReplyDeleteI especially enjoyed the bit about the toilet. Ezra is similarly afraid to go to the bathroom in unknown restrooms. He can get used to a place, but it takes a while. He's afraid of hand dryers, but I wonder if there are other things too like being afraid of being flushed away...
Interesting insights.