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My 9 yr old son is in 4th grade, he is much like other boys his age. He
He likes fast cars, playing army, and video games.

Although my son is like any other 9 yr old, he also has his differences.
My son is autistic, he has low verbal skills often communicating with 3-4 work sentences.

MY son's 4th grade class is learning about fire safety. A fireman comes to his school 1x a week and the children learn about smoke detectors, what to do if ther is a fire in the home, the dangers of matches, and other fire safety lessons. They even get to climb inside the firetruck and sound the bells and horns.

The fireman must have made a bid impact on my son cause something came out of his mouth I have never heard before.

A long sentence!

The children were completing a questionare about fire safety
and one of the questions were; Have you ever played with matches?

I asked my son the question, have you ever played with matches, and I was completely shocked by his response.

His response was, "Oh, yes I have, on the green table were matches and I played with them."

This is my autistic son using excellent expressive skills to communicate with good sentence structure.

WOW!

ahhhhhhhhhh Bummer you know know you have to redo his room in fire house goodies and try and find this man and thank him it will make his year and I bet he will be able to lead you in the direction of finding the goodies to make your sons room into a fire house if this engages him wooo hooooo

Bummer, that is absolutely wonderful news!!!! I hope this trend will continue and thanks so much for sharing it with us.

Hugs,
monster

PS - Don't forget to hide the matches and lighters, LOL

Bummer- I know it made your day and even though you will make sure all the matches are up, to know your son is able to connect thoughts and express them makes it special.

Thank you everyone.

Jayne, red is my son's favorite color, and he has red walls in his room.

When my son was 3 yrs, one afternoon while I was busy in the restroom my son decided to cook his favorite food, macaroni & cheese.

I came running out of the bathroom when the smoke alarms started going off.

My son had turned the electric stove on high and sat the box on top of the burner.
Flames reached almost to the bottom of the cabinets.

No major damage but my kitchen did get a new paint job and I got a new stove with burners on the back.

bummer im so thankful for your son i know how thrilled you must be

Bummer, that was a great achievement for your son. I pray that more and more come along for him. You are such a good mother.
Love
Vickie

Bummer...this is wonderful news. I know it must make you feel even more proud of him than ever before....and have more hope for the future. He must truly love what he is learning in school from this fire man. He has made a truly large impact on him. I liked jaynes idea about the fire house in his bedroom and all..that sounds just grand. Red

Yes Bummer Do contact that fireman ... It sounds like your son really enjoyed the visit ... If you want to give me your addy I can go to my dept and send you out some items that we use for give aways .. coloring books and other stuff ..

Their are alot of great sites for firefighter items like wall paper boarders .I have a huge collection of it since I have been involved with it for 8 years ...
You never know your son might be a great person to help change that smoke detecter battery and help plan the excape route .
as you can tell it makes me proud to know that he had so much fun .