Sorry for all you complainers. I have been very busy and havent had time to blog.
SO here is the update: Every morning I go to Cerefe, a school for children with special needs. My friend Marina and I work in one classroom with the children who are functioning at the lowest level in the school. We work with all of the children but are each assigned 1 specific child who is considered to be our client. Mine is Mauricio, an 11 year old boy with Down´s Syndrome. To be quite honest the whole morning placement is chaotic and not well supervised. We tend to have very little idea what we are doing, the teachers leave the children alone for long periods of time and the children rarely show up to school.
My afternoon placement is much cooler. I have 2 of my own clients. The first, and my favorite, is Ronald, a 3 year old with Cerebral Palsy. I´ve created a communication board ( a way of communicating using pictures), and am teaching him and his mother how to use it. He is nonverbal and at this point unable to walk, but he is really really smart and is learning to use the system pretty quickly. My second client, who I really dont like too much, is a 2 year old who looks like he is 6 months old. I´m basically doing play therapy with him.
THATS ALL FOR NOW
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I'm finally back from my road trip and although I'm not trecking Bolivia with you it was, otherwise, a great time. I'm very much enjoying reading up on you and I'm glad that you are having an adventure, to say the least. Sorry about your feet through the jungle, but mostly about your client (the first and the third in the story). Miss you and I can't wait until you come home!
hey how are you?? it's been a while since the last time we had contac by e-mail. I'm glad you are doing fine and also I'm surprised for the therapies that you are doing to these kids. If ve' been thinking a lot this time and feeling better now I guess it was the stress and system here in the states that for moments drives me crazy. Good luck with eveything ok gordita??!! jejejeje :) chau Rodrigo
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