[blindkid] Independence Day

Carol Castellano blindchildren at verizon.net
Sun Jul 18 01:41:47 UTC 2010


What a wonderful trip and a wonderful story!  Love the clicker idea.
Carol

Carol Castellano
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
www.nopbc.org

At 10:24 AM 7/16/2010, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>      We are almost three weeks into our around the country RV trip.  We have
>been to Quebec Province, down through Ontario, into Niagara Falls New York
>and are presently spending the weekend with cousins in Mayville New york.
>Our boys turn 4 tomorrow.  Wonder where the time went.
>
>      What I really wanted to share was Vinnie's continuing push, ours and
>his, for independence.   Vinnie has been to many new places and environments
>to orient to on our journey, which has been a plus to see him explore and
>use his cane more efficiently.  Like anything, there has to be a reason in
>order to want to achieve something.  He asked me to, "let go my hand", and
>proceeded to walk by himself.  Generally he wants to hold my finger in new
>places especially, so this was exciting.  He is also orienting better to the
>sounds of our family and able to stray a ways, supervised of course, and
>come back on his own.  He orients quite well to the clicker we started using
>a couple of months ago, so I don't have to constantly talk to keep him on
>track when out walking or in a crowd.  Our boy is growing up!
>
>      Have a great weekend all.
>
>Blessings from Mayville New York,
>Sue H.
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