Eleanor is now six. She is technically in first grade this year and is the height of your average eight year old. The good news is that she has made some progress with her social and communication skills. She can now:
- make choices (pretzels or m&ms),
- make requests (pretzels),
- tell us what is bothering her (sometimes),
- do minimally prompted greetings,
- follow along with her peers in a simple play activity or game that she likes (ie run around the playground in a screeching pack of feral suburban children),
- and follow multi-step directions,
- wear socks and sneakers,
- let me cut her hair without experiencing a psychotic break,
- and be present while her father eats without breaking down.
Things that are still hard for her:
- communicating abstract concepts, past events and emotions,
- conversations/reciprocal communication (she is pretty unilateral with her communication. She talks to get stuff or actions. She does not just talk for the social reinforcement.),
- decoding words and blending to sounds to read phonetically,
- trying new foods,
- and keeping her senses regulated.
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