Fantastic. I often wish I could live inside my son’s (he has Down Syndrome)body and see where the communication glitch is. He can sign some. He can talk some. But most of his talking is gibberish and incoherant to strangers. I know the feeling when your handicapped child makes a giant leap forward out of the blue. Marcel signed “eat” and it was just onward and upward from there. What a great story.
I work with adults like Carly. The pay is unbelievably low, but I LOVE my job. What a phenomenal family, and what freedom Carly now has through communication. LOVE this one. I’m going to send the link to my coworkers.
My son is 5 and severly speech delayed. He is the smartest child I have ever seen. He does the most amazing things for his age but he just can’t talk. He has made so much progress in the last month though. He said his first sentence last week “Buy more ham” We were so excited! We made such a big deal, he says it all the time now for attention. Carly is such an inspiration. What a wonderful family she has that won’t give up on her. Thanks for posting that Mock
I sure hope this story has inspired some huge grant dollars to go towards researching this method of communication. We have a 4th grade boy with cerebral palsy at our church and he also uses a specialized computer to communicate, although he’s not quite as “chatty” as Carly was. Of course he’s only in the 4th grade so we’ll give him a few years. Thanks for sharing Mock!!!
Thanks Mock. This totally made me cry.
Awesome story!
Wow! Wasn’t ready for that. What a great story.
We may have a philosophical Stephen Hawking here. It brought lumps to my throat but also made me CHEER! YOU GO GIRL!!
Holy crap, that was amazing. Wow.
Fantastic. I often wish I could live inside my son’s (he has Down Syndrome)body and see where the communication glitch is. He can sign some. He can talk some. But most of his talking is gibberish and incoherant to strangers. I know the feeling when your handicapped child makes a giant leap forward out of the blue. Marcel signed “eat” and it was just onward and upward from there. What a great story.
I work with adults like Carly. The pay is unbelievably low, but I LOVE my job. What a phenomenal family, and what freedom Carly now has through communication. LOVE this one. I’m going to send the link to my coworkers.
My son is 5 and severly speech delayed. He is the smartest child I have ever seen. He does the most amazing things for his age but he just can’t talk. He has made so much progress in the last month though. He said his first sentence last week “Buy more ham” We were so excited! We made such a big deal, he says it all the time now for attention. Carly is such an inspiration. What a wonderful family she has that won’t give up on her. Thanks for posting that Mock
I sure hope this story has inspired some huge grant dollars to go towards researching this method of communication. We have a 4th grade boy with cerebral palsy at our church and he also uses a specialized computer to communicate, although he’s not quite as “chatty” as Carly was. Of course he’s only in the 4th grade so we’ll give him a few years. Thanks for sharing Mock!!!