Any advice on what to do with a half-blind, nonverbal, mentally retarded student who likes to rip my clothing and try to bite me? Just kidding - we're making plenty of "significant gains" out here. :)
Significant gains... *groans* good to here YOU'RE doing well :)
The nonverbal autistic olfactophile I work with who likes to spit, bite, push and screech can be a nice, young man as long as he gets an Avon magazine (with all of the women-in-lingere pictures removed) and sufficient time to match letters from a paper to keys on a keyboard... apparently something about a computer screen makes him a) silent and b) completely asleep for about 45 minutes after just 15 at the computer.
Can't hold a pencil, can't talk, can't add or count, but if you show him a capital A on an index card, and he can, with prompting, find it on a keyboard and type it. The computer and the scratch and sniff magazines are *his* "significant gains," hehehe.
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I'm so happy to hear about "home" via your journal. In May, I'll be moving... "where" is still up in the air, but NM has always been a fantasy.
Let me know if there's anything I can do (tfa-teacher to tfa-teacher) and I wish you well!
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I'm loving New Mexico!
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The nonverbal autistic olfactophile I work with who likes to spit, bite, push and screech can be a nice, young man as long as he gets an Avon magazine (with all of the women-in-lingere pictures removed) and sufficient time to match letters from a paper to keys on a keyboard... apparently something about a computer screen makes him a) silent and b) completely asleep for about 45 minutes after just 15 at the computer.
Can't hold a pencil, can't talk, can't add or count, but if you show him a capital A on an index card, and he can, with prompting, find it on a keyboard and type it. The computer and the scratch and sniff magazines are *his* "significant gains," hehehe.
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