Anyone want to employ ds2 as an LSA?

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DS1 was climbing on the sink to look out of the kitchen window (1 storey up so no ideal). I said I'd have to get him down and ds2 said "you'll need to do a countdown mummy, do a countdown then he'll get down". Bless. I've been quite impressed with his understanding of autism recently

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Can't he be DS1's LSA then? You'd never have a staffing/funding/whatever problem again.

ah well luckily now he's in special school he is surrounded by staff who know what they are doing, but when he was at mainstream, yes we could have done with him.

You could tap in to a whole new market - Undercover LSAs. Ideal for those parents who know that their child needs LSA support but who, for whatever reason, don't want their child to stand out too much in the classroom. Send in an LSA who is the same age as the child who needs support and everyone will assume they are just another pupil. :o

Bless him ! I know what you mean, I often think our old SALT could take a few lessons from Ds1 how to talk to Ds2 - simplified language, emphasising important words and actually listening to what Ds2 is trying to say.....

This reminds me..... some years ago a friend's DD used to come over regularly for playdates as part of DS's ABA prog. Her brother (HFA) was also on a prog so she was steeped in ABA talk. When I was driving her home one day, my DS made one of his usual quacks and the little girl broke off our conversation about Rugrats and said "nice talking Davros's DS". PMSL!

Big awww to your ds2 baka and your friend's little girl, Davros.

:o That's sweet Davros. DS1 was in the front room today shouting repeatedly (du dye ai- bye bye light in English). he'll carry on shouting it until its repeated to him. DH and I were having a kind of conversation and had obviously blocked out the awful sound-he says it 15 million times a day so sometimes you have to- so ds2 stepped in "bye bye light ds1". It's funny he's really tuned into autism over the last few months. He told me today when we were at the supermarket that we couldn't take ds1 to Sainsburys because he would moan and shout! :o Must admit it did cross my mind that if ds2 needs to earn some money when he's older I'll suggest that he looks for an ABA programme to be a tutor- by then he'll be a natural- and its got to beat lots of Saturday jobs :o

that is really sweet baka.. and davros. Dd2 is showing signs of understanding dd1's prattle. she understood yesterday when dd1 said something unintelligible to me but which meant - lets stand up on mum and dad's bed and hold onto the headboard and dance. I thought I would loan out dd2 to be a makaton signer interpreter. SHe now does the sign for her name that we picked for dd1 to use - again another sign we haven't taught but she had picked it up from watching dd1. COnstantly amazes me how quickly dd2 picks things up from just watching. Dd1 is a watcher too but it just takes her that little bit longer to click.

DS1 often tries to interpret DS2's noises for me - or if he can't he says 'He's just practising his words, Mummy'. I've also noticed how protective he is of DS2 when other children are around. He gets very annoyed if DS2 stands in front of the TV when they're on their own, but if other kids are there and get cross, then he just goes up to DS2, pulls him back gently and then stands there holding his hand so he can't move back again. I once heard him say to his best friend (also 4) " DS2 just gets a bit excited when the TV's on, that's all".

He also describes DS2 as 'a bit autistic' to other people!

Ah, that's fantastic! DS has recently told me about his 'conversations' with DD ("DD says she wants to have a bath now mummy") and loves doing PECS with her. He tells everybody she is a "special princess" and tells visitors to be careful to shut the front door as 'DD may 'scape'.

All these messages make me really happy that I am soon to give dd a sibling, for both of them .

Ahhhhhh!