Friends With FOP

Today I had a meeting with Erin's preschool teacher, the OT/PT specialist, and the para in the class.  It has taken Erin much longer than I expected to warm up to the class and her teachers.  For a long time she wouldn't talk at all.  They could tell she wanted something but she refused to "use her words."  By Halloween she had started to come around.  In time she began doing morning exercises with the class,  singing along, asks for snack/juice, and she stopped using the special chair the teachers had picked out for her (because of her back limitation).  ...