Guest guest Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Spot on Jan, mother of Trent 22yo w/DS from the Landdownunder -- Re: can you believe.... Well yall, I think God (or whoever is your higher power) is going to have a big surprise when we get to heaven. I am not sure about this, but I have a feeling that this extra chromosome is actually an improvement on the old models (i.e. us) I truly believe our children hold a knowledge so dear that no amount of IQ testing can measure it. They are so close to the true meaning of life it is scarey. It is not about high powered jobs, cell phones, mercedes benz etc.. It all comes down to two things: Forgiveness and Love. Our children understand that a thousand times more than we do, but we are learning, we just gotta keep being good students! Peace, Dinkins-Borkowski; Nolan(4) nocf, Phoebe(2) Ds & Cf Phoebe's Video: http://www.active.com/donate/buddywalk2006/phight4phoebe Get Phoebe-Chic: http://www.cafepress.com/phoebesphight Re: can you believe.... I know that is basically smarter than I am but I test much higher on the IQ tests. All it proves is that I am better at taking IQ tests than he is. Whoop-de-do. Jessie I am forever telling people that Trent is a very intelligent person and certainly far from stupid, just because he can't argue and tell us how wrong we are and often because of this will just sit back and go with the flow. One particular incident which comes to mind, was a few years back on our first OS holiday to London, I got off the bus at Buckingham Palace instead of waiting for it to return decided to walk back to the station. Trent tried telling me to take a particular road, which to me seemed the wrong one and naturally as I am the one without problems must know best!!! Guess who got us lost and was going in the complete wrong direction - if I had of taken his advice would have found the station within about 500 meters. That trip was a great eye opener and learning experience for me, I learnt a great deal about my son and have a greater respect for him and his capabilities. As to IQ tests, have never had one and to the best of my knoweldge neither has Trent or his siblings. He did have a pysch evaluation when he was about 4, the outcome - the tester was not sure if he couldn't or wouldn't do the set tasks. I think she learnt a lot from him as well that day. Keep smiling Jan, mother of Trent 22yo w/DS from the LandDownUnder - in the middle of making up a chat book for the start of his new year of program - just hope the staff like it and take the time to circle the 5 questions daily!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 In a message dated 1/21/2007 1:05:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, JB66111@... writes: I know that is basically smarter than I am but I just had an eye opening experience with Micah that I have to share with his teacher. We KNOW he is intelligent but of course we see what he can do. The other day we were doing his little reading booklets together as he is trying to learn to read them. One booklet was to reinforce the new sight word on and so every page was " The turkey is ON the plate " " The potatoe is ON the plate. " ad nauseum. On each page was a as picture of whatever was ON a plate on the plate lol!! As we continued to read we got to " The salad is ON the plate " SO Micah says " No plate " I begin to argue with him... " Yes the salad is on the plate " Again " No plate mum " Finally I said " Micah the salad is on the plate! " He points to the picture and says " No plate mum, bowl " Out of all the pictures that was the only one of the food in a bowl. Smart or what. THAT my friends is abstract thinking and I would care to betcha not one of his " typical " peers in that classroom picked that up cause I know I wouldn't have. I love it... he keeps on amazing me every day with his smarts...just gotta share it with the world lol!! Loree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 In a message dated 1/21/2007 3:51:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, julieborkowski@... writes: Well yall, I think God (or whoever is your higher power) is going to have a big surprise when we get to heaven Well i have always said that I believe when God created Adam and Eve they were very possibly the first down syndrome people who ever lived, innocent, kind, loving... and when they ate of the apple they messed it all up and so.....we are really the ones born without the right set of chromosomes and they aren't. We named Micah, Micah because it means " Who is like God " OF course no one is like God but if anyone on earth comes close to the loving, Father it is our children. So Kudo I am with you all the way!! Loree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 My son had a computer educational game that he loved to play. He had to match 2 things and would deliberately mismatch them until he only had one choice left (which was the correct answer) There is no way he could miss every part in every game everytime. He loved having the game say try again. and Give him a pep talk to try again. He loved the games cute responses when he did it wrong. You have to be pretty smart to be able to get every answer wrong everytime! He so hated to pick the answer first and just get a " great job " and move on to the next game. Jeannette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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