Friday, May 06, 2005
The Amazing Mike
There are several things I made a mental note to be sure to blog about over the past few days. Hope I can remember where I PUT all those mental notes. They aren't here on the mental desk, or stuck to the mental fridge with mental magnets.... Hmmm.
Well, at least one thing is about Mike. As you know, Mike has developmental delays caused by what is basically an extreme neurologically based learning disability. His reading is right now at about a third grade level, for instance. And the expectation is that he will slowly but surely catch up until, by the time he's an adult, he can function in the 'normal' range.
But like any child, every once in a while, he throws a little surprise in on us. In the picture of my May Day pansy last week, you might have seen a computer screen in the background. That's Mike's. His set up is right next to mine here on the big desk so we can be together when we're computering, and I can help him with his learning games or whatever.
He knows his way around the various Control Panel screens, and figured out a long time ago how to change colors and screen savers and stuff like that. But I guess he noticed that my desktop is very plain, with just a couple of icons, in contrast to his, which had so many you could hardly see the wallpaper.
So without having to ask for ANY help...he make a new desktop file, labeled it Mike, and moved all his shortcut items into it. Amazed, we asked him who showed him how to do that. He just shrugged and smiled. Nobody. He just...worked it out and did it.
In case you can't tell, I'm pretty chuffed about that!
Well, at least one thing is about Mike. As you know, Mike has developmental delays caused by what is basically an extreme neurologically based learning disability. His reading is right now at about a third grade level, for instance. And the expectation is that he will slowly but surely catch up until, by the time he's an adult, he can function in the 'normal' range.
But like any child, every once in a while, he throws a little surprise in on us. In the picture of my May Day pansy last week, you might have seen a computer screen in the background. That's Mike's. His set up is right next to mine here on the big desk so we can be together when we're computering, and I can help him with his learning games or whatever.
He knows his way around the various Control Panel screens, and figured out a long time ago how to change colors and screen savers and stuff like that. But I guess he noticed that my desktop is very plain, with just a couple of icons, in contrast to his, which had so many you could hardly see the wallpaper.
So without having to ask for ANY help...he make a new desktop file, labeled it Mike, and moved all his shortcut items into it. Amazed, we asked him who showed him how to do that. He just shrugged and smiled. Nobody. He just...worked it out and did it.
In case you can't tell, I'm pretty chuffed about that!
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