Bryce At School

Bryce qualified a few months ago for the Early On program, which is aimed at helping the preschool set gain skills they are lacking. You have to be at approximately 1/2 your age behind in some way in order to qualify. Bryce qualified not because of his speech, but because of his eating, or lack there of. His eating skills, at the time he was assessed, were equivalent to a child of about 6 months of age. Services are interesting, he receives speech at our home every week, OT at our home every other week, and then once a week we go to "toddler group" with other 2 year old children and their caregivers for 1 hour of "school".

I have to admit, going to his school is NOT the highlight of my week. I'm a nervous wreck, first of all, because of his food allergies. They do have a school nurse which is nice-and she seems to be on the ball-but there are hundreds of people trekking through that building every day. Touching things. Licking things. Breathing peanut butter breath and spilling cups of milk. I almost need a Xanax just to attend. Bryce is in the group that does not receive snack, so that is one less thing to worry about.

I'm also not convinced that going to toddler group is going to help. Bryce is a lot different from the bulk of the children there. He ONLY has feeding issues and speech issues. There are children there who are autistic (and toddler group is very upsetting for them, poor things), there are kids who have shunts and kids who have very obvious fine/gross motor issues. Many of them are tiny. I'm not sold on this idea that going to a class for 60 minutes per week with children who don't talk will help him talk. But he seems to be liking it a little, so that's good.

Here's some photos of Bryce, doing his thing at school.