at 6 years 9 months
with sister Claire 8 years 4 months
The best teacher and helper of all is Scott's
older sister Claire who is older by 19 months.
Joyce & Trevor Pollard
(September 1999)
Below is a sample of
Scott's current writing - Feb 2000
At the end of the 1999 school year things were written
down for Scott and he then traced over this. He was able to
write his name but always wrote the S & C backwards and he
would also be in so much of a hurry to get it done that he
would get the letters all mixed up.
Since returning to school this year he has constantly
amazed us with his writing, he is not only writing by himself
but he also gets his letters around the right way. He is
fairly slow at doing his writing so for the main work he
still traces but will do one or two sheets per day by himself
(of course some one spells out for him).
Scott is also making progress with his reading and can
read most of the very early readers from school. He
recognises around 50 words.
Scott now attends OT fortnightly and they have implemented
a program at school for ½ hour everyday and we are seeing
great improvements in body strength and co-ordination. He
started gymnastics beginning of term 4 last year and this has
also helped with things like climbing and also landing on two
feet when jumping down from things, "his knees are
looking so much better".
His speech is also coming along really well and again that
has also been cut back to fortnightly private visits and ½
hour per week at school.
Joyce Pollard (March 2000)
Scott and sister Claire
2002
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