Wow. That's sad. Was she able to remember you? Hopefully she will get her speech back. What is her name. We can say a prayer for her.
I do not know if she'll recover.
Don't seem as if she remembers me, maybe she does, but how will she say that. I do not want to get too communicative as it will lead to a problem - how do we communicate quickly without disturbing the rest of the class (Writing only).
Her name is Vivian.
Have to get back to the school now. Next class starts in 15 mins.
That's what is so great about this school.
they basically have a small hospital on premisses, small meaning not able to perform operations and stuff, but to see to the special needs.
They have dedicated speech therapists, and other specialists.
I've been watching a girl today, she has an illness where the control of muscles slowly go(Afrikaans - spier-distrofie). These kids normally do not really make it to adulthood. She likes to work on the computer, but man, I have no idea how she get it right to type.
It seems her hand is all over the place, and just suddenly it strikes the key she needs.
Worst of it is, a couple months back the gov stopped the school's funding, nearly causing it's closure. Individuals, companies and organisations came together and provided the required funding to keep it going. Then these people took gov to book on what they are doing.
Now they have reinstated the funding to the full.
I had a bit of a chat with her, she seems able to form some words, and even very small sentences using easy words.
Sometimes she tries to say something, then it just comes out garbled and she end up pointing towards things.
I also think she'll recover eventually.
I had a bit of a chat with her, she seems able to form some words, and even very small sentences using easy words.
Sometimes she tries to say something, then it just comes out garbled and she end up pointing towards things.
I also think she'll recover eventually.
hi arrie,
Its in these areas of disabilty that engineers can design simple ideas that can be a great help to the disabled person.
Unlucky for me then, I'm not near an engineer, but only a technician of sorts.
I am willing to listen to ideas, and even try some out, so lets fire away.
Can you describe the teaching environment for us?
Is it a regular style classroom with the teacher at the front and the students at desks/tables, where the teacher turns his/her back and writes on a wallboard?
How do the kids get the teacher's attention if they do not understand something?
Could certain students benefit from some form of noise-maker to attract the teacher's attention?
Could non-verbally-cummunicative students benefit from a yes/no switch panel inconjunction with certain questioning?
Just a few ramblin' questions.
I had to for example explain how to calculate the area of a floor and wall to one child about 12 times. Did not mind really, but I'm sure on Monday that same kid would warrant the explanation another time.
(Seems the forum has been a little slow whilst composing/trying to post & re-post this m-I'll get to the replies soonest)
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