Jonah has been making huge progress this school year. He has an interpreter with him two hours every morning in his kindergarten classroom and she is wonderful! Ruth works with Jonah on signs and classwork and also interprets for his teacher. His classroom teacher has fully embraced him and signs in class like she has been doing it for years. Jonah eats lunch in a resource room where the ratio of students to staff is much smaller; we felt this was better for him as he adjusted to being at school all day. He spends the better part of the afternoon in the resource room working one on one with a teacher or having some down time. He then makes it back to his regular classroom for the last 30 minutes or so.
Jonah has a massive sign vocabulary and it grows constantly. Ruth has said multiple times that Jonah has surpassed every student she has worked with in sign. What an amazing feat for a 5 year old boy! In class Jonah sometimes identifies words and numbers before his classmates can. The majority of signs that Jonah knows, he can also spell and read through sight word recognition.
His classmates are great! They are incredibly helpful and willing to sign with Jonah. If we make it to his classroom early, Jonah is usually surrounded by a group of girls! He is a ladies man:)
On January 14 Jonah saw Dr. Escobar (developmental pediatrician/neurodevelopment). Dr. Escobar was floored with Jonah's progress over the years and said that he hardly recognized him. He is really only seeing Jonah now to control his medication (adderall for focus/attention and baclofen for muscles). Praise God!
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