Perspective
Speech and language assessment went really well today (thanks for all your well wishes). Partly I'm sure because Mark is totally in love with the unit at the hospital. It has a sensory room, with a padded floor, disco ball lighting, fibre optics you can make change colour and a bubble tube thingummy that also lights up. We could have lay in there and chilled all day long - it beats a flotation tank hands down for relaxation in my book.
The speech therapist emerged after about an hour, looking ever so slightly shell shocked and said 'He's very verbal isn't he?'. Oh yes, that's my boy! She'll report her findings when we have the remainder of the assessment in a few weeks time. But she did let me in on one particular gem.
He was shown a photo of a boy holding a teddy bear and the therapist asked him 'What's the boy feeling?'. Well, there's only one answer to that really, at least in Mark's world: 'The teddy'.
Here's to seeing the world from a different point of view. Happy weekend everyone.
The speech therapist emerged after about an hour, looking ever so slightly shell shocked and said 'He's very verbal isn't he?'. Oh yes, that's my boy! She'll report her findings when we have the remainder of the assessment in a few weeks time. But she did let me in on one particular gem.
He was shown a photo of a boy holding a teddy bear and the therapist asked him 'What's the boy feeling?'. Well, there's only one answer to that really, at least in Mark's world: 'The teddy'.
Here's to seeing the world from a different point of view. Happy weekend everyone.
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But when you think of it,that's exactly the right answer as we can't realy know what the boy is feeling unless we ask the boy himself,we can only suppose.So yes he's feeling the teddy.
You get used to those answers in the end and they learn to ask what folk are feeling and when they get used to asking, folk are used to telling them.Odd but true.
In Johnathans case Aspergers has made him who and what he is and I love him all the more for his eccentric ways.
Good luck with the paediatrician !!!!!
Best wishes Kat xx
As soon as I started learning about sentence structure in linguistics I became really sensitive to amibuous sentences (like the one I read on the BBC News website this lunchtime: "British soldier killed in Iraq. More soon." - perhaps they meant more soldiers will be killed; perhaps they meant there will be more news!)
I just started volunteering at a group for people who've had strokes, and was looking at some of the exercises that S&L therapists suggest we do with the group, including "match the faces up to the emotion" tasks. As far as I'm aware I have no awareness or language problems and I couldn't do it. One person's confused is another person's bereft! One of my options after graduation is S&L therapy, but I'm not sure I could put people through those tasks!
Ooh, this is a bit of an essay! Hope you're all well! Sarah x
I'm glad it went well, and that both of your were happy. Edward loves the sensory room at his new school, and I have to say they are fab, soft floor, gentle music....mmm I could drift off right now :)
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I laughed when I read the back to school post because I made a cake when Jack went back just so I could see his little face light up when he got back!
We had a hot air balloon over us tonight, it was so close you could almost see the faces of the people on board!
Julia x
When I was dealing with a teacher who was sure my son had ADHD I did a lot of research about alternative learners.
Mark sounds exceptional. In the best way.
Go Mark! Can always count on that autism spectrum to keep the professionals on their toes!!
Been thinking of you guys during this assessment time and sending positive vibes across the miles to Blighty. We having fun with pregnancy #3 here - the literal questions/answers take on a whole new meaning when you start talking about where babies come from....
Loving your blog as always - kisses to you all xxx