The Stark Family

Day 53 - Tuesday 11/13/07

I visited Tym Tuesday evening and brought him some gifts. My girlfriend Jessica was kind enough to buy him some easy reading books. We read some of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes with Tym. We think that because of the minimal amount of sentences, and the context of the pictures, he will be more motivated to read.

I also taught Tym how to use his cellphone (no calls please). I tried to simplify it as much as possible as he has a Treo, and there are many functions and buttons that often confuse him. He can check his email, make calls, and receive texts, but he usually needs prompting to get to the right application.

We also tried some cognition tests with Tym. We picked some simple objects from around his room, and asked him to describe 5 attributes about the object. We needed to prompt him to think bigger than just the object’s color, and instead what it feels like, how much it weighs, etc. We tried this with a few different objects, and he got all the answers correct with a bit of prompting. Hopefully he’ll be able to expand his cognition to think slightly bigger next time.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 12:16 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.