Comments on: Just a Few Pages But It’s A Start

By: Last Week’s Top Posts

Last Week’s Top Posts — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:13:34 +0000

[...] Just a Few Pages But It’s A Start A book and a boy with a sense of humor [...]

By: Genes, Music, and Practice Makes Perfect

Genes, Music, and Practice Makes Perfect — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:28:03 +0000

[...] I know this from years of practicing piano and viola, playing scales and Hanon exercises, working my way through books of sonatas and minuets and preludes and fugues: There’s a virtue in doing something over and over. Often I’d find I’d memorized a piece just because I had played it so much. Repeating playing of the same musical piece trains the fingers where to move until it’s second nature. All the repetitive learning Charlie has done has helped to train his mind to make those connections, to pick up at 11 what he did not when he was 3 and 5 and 7 (he’s now lovely full sentences all on his own). [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:53:18 +0000

You’re very right!

Still grinning here—-

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:36:56 +0000

I believe this is the first time you have told us about Charlie repeating such a long string of words, verbatim. I think that’s quite an accomplishment. I am hoping he either mimicked your intonation, or came up with his own dramatic stress for the sentence? (About 4th grade my monotone delivery was addressed.)

And of course I am giggling inside myself about the I need help act.

By: FXSmom

FXSmom — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:45:28 +0000

Matty brought a book to me to read the other day and my heart totally melted. I’ve been waiting 12 years for that moment.

By: niksmom

niksmom — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:22:02 +0000

Hope. You and Charlie give me hope that our small steps will come in time, too.

By: TomsMom

TomsMom — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:37:02 +0000

What a lovely treat for you both–truly a heartwarming moment! Tom’s always liked books.
Here he is now to help me:

i like books .

By: New Initiatives

New Initiatives — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:19:14 +0000

[...] Tuesday night Charlie faked needing help. On Wednesday afternoon, he helped [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:24:15 +0000

2 more pages and one “bye mom” tonight.

By: eileen

eileen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:43:04 +0000

A few pages is a great start! Keep trying. I feel a entire book in the near future.