tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30455368708487446952024-03-05T03:46:39.894-08:00Life as the parent of a special Visually Impaired childAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-64657626758797220272015-01-10T16:55:00.000-08:002015-01-10T16:55:55.911-08:00Thank you Marty!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">My daughter used the sSmart Brailler <a href="http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">to write</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Thank you marty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">When I got home on Friday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"> I had a lovely surprise because </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">there was a parcel waiting for us </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Inside there was a monster</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"> backpack . it has eyes teeth and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">horns In the backpack we found a slinky, a horse a book and some magazines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">it was a peresent from Marty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"> to say 'Thank you for having me',</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Thank you for the present Marty </span> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It was fun.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-11865484510509185682015-01-08T17:49:00.001-08:002015-01-08T17:49:33.902-08:00Mistakes Don't Matter!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">While we still have 'Marty' the Smart brailler<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler">http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler</a> </span> with us we decided to do a bit of spelling practice. With 'Heather'( one of marty's inbuilt voices) telling us what we had written it was easy to hear when things hadn't gone quite right and just as easy with the inbuilt error correction system to put it right again. Mistakes don't matter because they can be sorted out easily , they are not permanent and this builds confidence and self esteem. The act of putting them right also reinforces the correct patterns . we shall miss Marty
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when we wave him 'Goodbye' off to his next family!! Thanks to <a href="http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/backpacking-smart-brailler-uk">http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/backpacking-smart-brailler-uk</a> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-44402165098362206022015-01-06T15:59:00.000-08:002015-01-08T17:23:19.646-08:00Back to school! <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So it's back to school and we are settling back into our normal routine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">We finished the last bit of 'Our news on Sunday and i finally got my head around the handy correct button on the 'Smart Brailler .<a href="http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We really got the hang of writing a line and spacing down once so we could hear it and then going down again to write the next line.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"> Here is the last part of 'our News'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Our News 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"> After ice skating we went <br /> <br />shopping. Mummy bought a soup<br /> <br />maker for Nanna and a new<br /> <br />iron. Then we went to the shoe shop<br /> <br />and I got new slippers.<br /> <br />We also went to Boots and got<br /> <br />some cough medicine because I have had<br /> <br />a nasty cough. We came home on<br /> <br />the bus and went to Nanna's because<br /> <br />Nanna has a poorly leg.<br /> <br />On Saturday we had a lie in<br /> <br />because it was a wet day. We went</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">down the town and then had fish and chips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">for lunch. I stayed with Nanna</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">while Mummy went to the library.<br /> <br />On Sunday I went to Bible</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">class and then we went to Nanna's<br /> <br />After lunch we went for a walk. It</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Just to show we didn't spend the whole holiday chained to the Brailler-even if it is fun!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-8633956160470392332015-01-03T16:08:00.000-08:002015-01-03T16:08:34.568-08:00We can choose!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We carried on writing Anna's news for school today on marty the Smart Brailler.<a href="http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> The really good part is that I don't have to transcribe it for them - we can print it! I didn't manage to print direct from the brailler but it was easy to transfer to memory stick and print from there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">My daughter really enjoyed using the file menu and scrolling down to the file we wanted and then pressing the select button.</span><br />
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She is really enjoying the speech and it is motivating her with her spelling as it tells her what she has just written so she beginning to think what will come next. it means she can be more independent and I am prompting less and less!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-3370301686108266612015-01-01T17:25:00.000-08:002015-01-09T14:55:50.644-08:00Holiday news<br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">My daughter started to write her Holiday news today on the smart brailler <a href="http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler</span></a> When i said that was what we were going to do she said 'cups' whic confused me a bit until it dawned that she had misheard 'caps' -what it says when the caps lock is put on! She was happy to sit down and begin her news for school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We had the 'speak everything' mode on and discovered that if you want it to speak the line you space up once and then if you want todouble space the hard copy you space up again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">This is what she wrote (saved and uploaded via USB)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">before Christmas we did </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">lots of Chrismas shopping.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-23610019282856016382014-12-31T16:28:00.000-08:002014-12-31T16:55:01.402-08:00Smart brailler.<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We were very excited when the smart brailler<a href="http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">http://www.perkinsproducts.org/smartbrailler</span></a> arrived and couldn't wait to get it out of the box.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">i waited until my daughter was in bed before I took the audio tour. it was quite easy to find my way round the brailler but it was handy to be able to pause the tour while I located the more unusual features-like the margin setting which is tucked behind the screen panel. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"> This afternoon I inroduced it to my daughter </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">She really enjoyed using itbecause it talked to her . she found it quite easy to use although we use fully contracted braille and there was a bit of confusion when it called '4,6,e' '4.6.5' </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">but it did eventually recognize the word we had written as 'dance'!</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We managed to make and save a file but we haven't ried to print it yet . that is tomorrow's job!</span> !<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Thanks to wonderbaby </span> <a href="http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/backpacking-smart-brailler-uk" target="_blank">http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/backpacking-smart-brailler-uk</a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">w</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ho have sent 'Marty' the Smart Brailler to visit!</span></span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-83856824490894056232014-10-17T01:00:00.000-07:002014-10-17T01:03:11.507-07:00Feling Sluggish<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mornings are always a bit of a rush as in most households. The taxi picks her up at about 8 20.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I get up first and then wake my daughter . She gets showered and dressed and I get her breakfast while she puts on her shoes. as in most things she is fairly independent these days although I probably still do more than I should because of the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Sometimes I have time for a shower while she dresses sometimes I shower while she has breakfast. This norning was one of these days complicated by the fact that the dhildren are allowed to wear their own clothes on Friday so not being super organized an outfit had to be put together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> i rushed down to get the chosen breakfast rice cakes , cheese and grapes and barefoot took it to the table , i felt something cold and damp under my foot, it was a baby slug! ugh!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-86079514253711764562014-10-07T15:16:00.000-07:002014-10-07T15:16:46.012-07:00JUDO GIRL<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have just come back from our wonderful local judo club- westerleigh<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3045536870848744695#editor/target=post;postID=8607951425371176456"> westerleighjudo@hotmail.co.uk </a> They train mainstream and special needs people together and it is fabulous to see my daughter totally included and having a whale of a time . The first couple of times she went we had tears half way through and she would 'freeze' and not do anything . They woukd just say, 'she's having a moment' and wait until she came out of it.Now as the result of their patience and encouragement she joins in with everything giggling away. It was brilliant tonight seeing her being raught by an older girl who herself has learning difficulties but who was wonderful with her. My daughter got the award tonight for this evenings work and progress. i was so proud of her!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-70213406212535594602014-10-02T15:50:00.002-07:002014-10-02T15:50:49.622-07:00I'm No masterchef!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first night i brought my daughter home-after i eventually got her to bed i lay in bed and thought 'i'm going to have to take her back tomorrow-I d'on't know how i an going o feed her, ; I was really in a panic. The most I usually managed to do was hurl a baked potato in the general direction of the microwave. i had a plan worked out for education which i thought (wrongly as it turned out) would be the least of my worries but i hadn't given food a second thought.The realizaion that i would be responsivle for everything that would go into her mouth was overwhelming. The next morning i got up and cooked noodles fried egg and soy sauce and after that we didn't look back!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today for pudding we had stewed apple and the last of the raspberries- both from the garden with apple and mango yogurt, .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The verdict ? 'That was <em>really</em> nice.' i might not be masterchef bu i think i've cracked it!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-71022724883293559182014-09-27T13:38:00.001-07:002014-09-27T13:38:55.239-07:00SaturdaysSaturdays are always much the same .as a special needs child she likes routine! We meet nanna at the bus stop and take the bus into the nearest town and if the weather is nice we go to the park - if not we go to the swimming pool. Today it was fine and warm so we went to the park. We went on the play equipment, the swing the roundabout the hammock and the climbing frame. Mummy on the ground and little dare-devil sixteen foot up on the tower with me tapping the next place to put her feet!! This week we were joined by a friend . wWe had a drink and then off to feed the ducks and pigeons eagerly waiting their weekly ration of corn. she is very brave now and lets the ducks take the corn from her hand.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045536870848744695.post-6157258579103777622014-09-24T17:17:00.000-07:002014-09-24T17:17:27.416-07:00Becoming a Parent<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i never expected to become a parent , indeed i didn't think i had a maternal bone in my body until I saw the child who would become my daughter for the first time when she was four and a half. I had arrived at the school where I did voluntary work each summer and said as usual.'Who would you like me to work with?' They brought this little girl to me who weighed only ten kilos and said 'This one. she has been here a month and has not put on any weight'. So we started three and a half weeks together. She was not walking independently, talking, spoon feeding or potty trained and she would not drink milk. To get her to drink milk i started by dipping her crisps in milk. i then started floating a crisp on a spoon of milk and by the end ot the week she had given up the unequal struggle and was drinking her mug of milk every day. She started to use a spoon and babble . One of the staff said ' What is she saying ?' i said 'I don't know - you speak the language'. She said,'She isn't speaking our language!' At the end of three weeks she had put on a kilo and the Head said 'You could adopt her if you like'. and that was the beginning of our journey together. Four long years later i went to bring her home</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577473934985268561noreply@blogger.com0