More Vocals Today

Today started out with Raquel waking up at 5am. She was very happy, extremely affectionate, but then by around 7am was not enjoying herself. We played "I'm Yours", (yes, it can start this early), and then Mike took them out to run some errands, which was a really nice break for me. When he came back, she went to sleep and was still sleeping when Jennifer arrived at 11:30am.

She was talking up a storm during her session with Jennifer and doing a lot of functional play, but wasn't interested in participating. Because she was trying to escape during her trials, she was not able to move up as I was hoping. Now, since she scored low because of this, she will again have to score higher a few days in a row before they can attempt to move her on. This is the frustrating part for me because I know she can do the things they are asking. I watch her do them day after day. She just wants to do them when she feels like it.

Part of the problem is the toys. She's getting bored with them. After the session today, I went to Big Lots and bought a few things that will hopefully be a little more motivating to her. We'll find out tomorrow.

I also heard from Regional. It's time for Raquel's mid-year review. Ken will be coming next Monday to observe her speech session (Janine is overlapping with Mary so I wish he wasn't going to be here) and then after the session, me, Janine & Ken will have the review.