Zack and I went to play school on Monday. It's the one run by the vision specialist team so includes lots of toys for visual stimulation. I took Zack into the room and sat on the floor with him, he was fascinated by the whole room and his eyes went really wide, soaking in all the good stuff.
One of the teachers brought over a long orange tube, which was quite heavy but is good for children to use for body awareness. When you turn it on it vibrates. Zack had his hands on it and the teacher switched it on, well, he loved it. He did his tongue out smile (that means oh I really like this), big eyes, the whole shabang.
This is what we mean:
Vibrating Snake
Oooh only £12.99 might get him one of them. He'll probably be board of it by Thursday.
Overall conclusion of the day was how amazed everyone was that his posture has improved, his head control is much better and his vision is even better than the last time.
Well done Pants a successful play group. However at the end I did catch him giving the Skunk eye to a little boy of about the same age, hmmm, maybe he thought it was too much competition for the ladies, the flirt.
This isn't my blog, it's Zack's. Zack arrived here seven weeks early, he had no heartbeat and wasn't breathing. He suffered catastrophic damage to his brain, he has cerebral palsy, problems with his hearing, vision and feeding. Our lives are both challenging and extraordinary. He is a gift. I hope that for whatever reason you find yourself reading this blog it can go some way to help those in the same situation and some way to remove the cloak that covers parenting a child with disabilities.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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