This is Carly youtu.be/xMBzJleeOno - pressumed to be retarded (please excuse the word) and on the other end of the spectrum - this is Jacob - (after watching this video a few times I noticed his head nodding, I think he uses that to stim and he seems to echo quietly if you look at his lips, he also does little looking at his mother) youtu.be/g91IQsS2spA As I hope you can see both are amazingly intelligent people. For Carly to get to a laptop and type, it took her a while to work out how to communicate with us but ultimately she did what the therapists around her did not. Since she has written books and is going to mainstream school and is starting to make sounds. I cant believe in this day and age after they have worked out that Stephen Hawking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking is still amazingly bright that they cant work out that special needs does not equal slow cognitively, therefore with out very little assumptions there is the entire spectrum of iq in the special needs community. -----Sorry this is my pet hate and the sooner people understand this concept the better it will be for people with special needs, at the moment they almost may as well live in the dark ages being stuck being treated like they are not intelligence when they are is like torture.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:38:44 +0000