Hi all. Naomi has had a tiring day - 7 hours straight consulting .... that's a heavy workload! Kaylee has had a tiring day too ..... swimming classes followed by an afternoon with Kym and her family. She is very popular with Kym's 4 boys ..... they look after her really well and the social interaction (which is essential to the day) is very good for Kaylia. ..... but she is tired tonight and I hope that she sleeps through the night. Last night she woke at 3am and was then awake till 6am. She seems less affected than I (by the lack of sleep).
She has made huge progress over this year .... learning to communicate, to express herself. The instructions she uses can be hilarious at times. On her therapy drills is to instruct others on what they are to do ... she has to name the action and the object that is being referred to. Kaylia has generalised this into daily life and uses it to arrange people the way she wants them ..... "GET UP ..... walk out!" Most of the time it is completely appropriate and OK ... but occasionally it cannot be complied with and we have to try to explain to her why we can't do it that time.
Kaylia's iPad arrived yesterday and it has been set up ready for school. Already I have found some problems with one of the most useful apps .... but an email to the app writer has produced very fast response .... the changes needed will be made in a couple of months at the next update.
Later:
The child is a genius! I went upstairs to find that she has been on my main computer, found a picture of herself ... and set it as the desktop! (Naomi watched her do it) Now if she had done this on the iPad, I'd be fairly impressed ... but to do it in WinXP, I'm amazed.
- Posted by the Kaylee Blogger
Aha! So the phantom Kaylee Blogger is Ian, yes? Very difficult to work out who's talking...
ReplyDeleteRe the sleep, there's a buzz at the moment about what the appropriate amount of sleep actually is. They're saying that before modern times, the norm was to have a few hours early (after sundown), then a period of several hours of restful wakefulness from say 11pm to 2am, then a further deep sleep until dawn woke us naturally. I have an article if desired...
The other thing is that the room needs to be fully dark. No night lights, especially blue light. PJC