[blindkid] I am so incredibly proud and need to share!

[Susan Harper]

Do you home school all your children?   What curriculum do you use?  How has
it been working with you visually impaired daughter?  Are there others out
there homeschooling their visually impaired children?
Blessings,
Sue H.
P.S. Congratulations, hard work paid off!

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Rene Harrell <rjharrell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've kind of dropped off the face of the earth these past few months. My
> just turned three year old has been struggling with unstable heart issues
> and after several rounds of hospitalizations, a couple of heart
> catherizations, two open heart surgeries plus a new baby due in a matter of
> weeks....well, we've been in that "survival" mode I'm sure others of you
> know very well.
>
> In the midst of all of this, we've still been plodding away homeschooling
> wise. Clare just turned 8 and we have been working, working, working on
> mastering her alphabet for several years now. Progress has been slow, but
> we
> have patiently continued to plod along, hoping to give her every
> opportunity
> for the light bulb to finally go off.
>
> Well, I have to say that this was the week! We've been using Tack-Tiles in
> combination with real braille, and last week you could tell she was
> actually
> processing letters and trying to read. I had the word "MAT" on the
> tack-tile
> slate and I switched off the "T" for a "P" without telling her and asked
> her
> to tell me what word was there. She scanned the board, started to say "MAT"
> again, then paused and all on her own said "No, not MAT....MAP." She still
> doesn't have full mastery of all her letters but she is truly starting to
> grasp the concept of reading, and is demonstrating the consistent ability
> to
> read words! Not memorize them, but truly read them!
>
> I am completely and absolutely thrilled. We dealt with so many people who
> doubted she'd ever have the cognitive ability to read, and while it's not
> Shakespeare, she is indeed reading and she's only just turned 8. Here is to
> long-term persistence and effort......I'm just so completely thrilled for
> her! And better yet, you can tell she is feeling very proud of herself.
>
> So, I couldn't help but share. It's been three years in the making, but you
> never know when it could possibly happen.
>
> Rene in Colorado Springs--- Mom to 5, including Clare (ROP) who is becoming
> the champion of words ending in -at, -ap, and -an
>
> --
> " I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up
> where I needed to be."
> -- Douglas Adams
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