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[quote=Anonymous][quote] While it is extremely difficult right now to do so, I would not set hard and fast limits on what your child may be able to accomplish in time. Exposure to typical children and to typical childhood experiences is very important in giving your child a good solid early start. In my opinion for a youngster with ID, an extra year in a preschool program is ideal to continue to work on developmental milestones across the board before public education begins. Build upon your child's interests to develop skills -- for example if they are crazy cars and trucks, then use this avenue to introduce colors of trucks/cars, counting trucks/cars, simple sentences, concepts such as fast/slow, up a hill/down a hill etc. [/quote]

You must know my son. He seemingly could not learn to count or learn his colors. But when we’d go for walks, he would be able to tell you the color of the cars we passed. That’s how he learned to count as well.

I agree that it’s important not to just accept that gets said about prognosis. I used to tell people (teachers, therapists, doctors, etc. ) that maybe they were right but that we were going to wait and see. I often felt like everyone but me was giving up. In the end my son did better than the predictions. [/quote]

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