Lacey--We love you!! Ammon would run into the building looking for Lacey. As soon as he would see her he would run into her arms and she would scoop him up. She worked so hard to help Ammon. She went to GREAT lengths to make therapy a special learning time for Ammon. She was very aware of Ammon's sensitivities to smells and textures, but she wanted to use play dough to strengthen hand muscles and for a table activity. Ammon gags SO BAD when he gets within a mile of it. So, she made some home made dough and added a jello packet to try to make it smell good. OH MY> he gagged like you would not believe. It sounds really mean but...Lacey and I were trying to not bust a gut(after he stopped of course). Go here to read Lacey's presentation about Ammon. She made sugar cookies for him to frost, covered a table with paper with all his favorite letters written on it, made chocolate pudding to help him feed a baby doll, created a wall schedule, brought in a tote of rice and water and was always such a good sport. I loved how excited she would get when Ammon would finally get something we would be working on. Good times were had at the BYU Speech Clinic with her. Ammon and I will both miss her.
Lee Robinson called me today from BYU. She is a one of the directors at the Speech Clinic. She called to ask me if I would be ok with having Ammon be a part of an experiment...an experiment to see how autistic children interact with Robots...in hopes that in the future they might use robots (a little 3 foot robot that is immobile but has facial expressions and talks) to help them communicate. Very interesting. I'm excited to see what Ammon's reaction is...hopefully positive. Since it is a new semester, Ammon has a new graduate student. Her name is Ersta. We met her for the first time last week. A had to endure yet another hearing torture, I MEAN , test. Ersta was extremely compassionate and is very good with Ammon. Hopefully they will have a connection.
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