Miss Karen

Miss Karen came again yesterday and played with Noel. The girls Developmental Specialist was there too at the same time, so this was really good , she told her about different things in blind children, braille, techniques, etc. Now hopefully everyone will be on the same page in helping Noel.

Noel was really happy yesterday, we practiced sitting up ( by herself ) and singing row row row your boat - Noel loves to rock back and forth so this was really fun for her.

All in all yesterday was a good day for everyone.

Appt with Vision Teacher

So Mrs. Karen came yesterday, she comes for an hour, I only got to see her for 15 min because I get off later, but she leaves me a sheet to tell me what to work with Noel on and how she did. Mrs. Karen says Noel has visual curiosity, we are not sure about light perception and so on. She said its great that Noel doesnt mind touching the grass, with her feet and hands, a lot of kids with visual impairments are tactile challenged, so far so good with Noel, she doesnt really care for feathery things but we are working on it. Tonite I think I will make some spaghetti and let her put her hands in the bowl and play with it.

Also we got our package from Seedlings, they sent Noel a book, what looks like a dog toy rubber knobby ball, a book for Paul and I to teach us Braille- looks very complicated, and a few other books to help incorporate different things for Noel.

Karen our vision teacher is coming today

Raising a visually impaired child is very different then a sighted child. Noel can't see the things that her twin does, she doesnt react like her sister does. Noel loves music and to touch different textures, this teaches her about her surroundings.

Today Noel has an appointment with the vision teacher Karen. She works for the School for the Blind and is a preschool teacher there. She comes to our home once a week and works with Noel and us to teach different things, show us stuff we can do for Noel to make her more independent.