Guest guest Posted August 16, 2010 Report Share Posted August 16, 2010 Wish we culd do travel training. No transport out in the hills. > > > Bus training is very useful so he can get himself to work when he is grown. > Take the bus with him when you go places just for training and then you can > teach him safety skills. Maybe my the time he graduates he will have the > safety skills. If not then, he can apply for para-transit service which are > door to door. > > a sense of direction is a very good skill. It means he can orient himself > to neighborhood and not just a building or a room. > > > http://thekitchenexperiments.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > Hi you wondrous beings! > > So, we replaced the dinosaur computer that DJ has been using with a Mac > that wasn't needed for work anymore. Ahem, spousal unit & I use PC so Mac is > alien still to us. I finally figured out how to close stuff that is open. > But that's about it. > > > > So, shameless hussies that we are, we just showed DJ the icon that > enables hime to search for his beloved YouTube videos. I thought I had > hidden the icon for making movies, etc etc. > > > > HAHAHAHAHA. > > > > So he is making movies using the camera thing that is built into the Mac. > > > > And managed to make files & put on the desktop. (duh-I have no clue yet) > > > > And restored all the stuff I hid. So he now also knows the thing plays > movies. > > > > But this next one is a real ponder able. He was looking for his high > school & somehow was on one in another state, so I fumbled my way thru > google earth & showed him how to put his school's address in the 3D earth > map section. > > > > He got really animated when he saw the street in real time in front of > his HS & proceeded to talk to me in Martian. > > > > Martian is a very difficult language to understand, so I resorted to the > standard " try to guess " thing. When I asked him " is that where you went > swimming today " , he replied, " No. Home " . > > > > I realized that he was pointing to where the bus goes after picking him > up. So I grabbed the little icon dude & showed him that you could use it to > travel to where you want to go. > > > > DJ proceeded to travel to the light & turned right. I stayed awhile while > he " drove " the little dude on the wrong side of the road. Then I went to > call his dad to excitedly tell him that DJ seemed to be showing that he knew > how to get home from the HS (at least via the bus route. > > > > About 15-20 minutes later, Dad got home & said, well it looks like he > does. > > > > I looked at the now unoccupied computer & instead of the school, there > was our house. > > > > OK???????!!! Coolbeans. Very coolbeans. Navigated the Mac like a pro, > drove home via google earth.... > > > > But. > > > > Sigh. But. > > > > Still feels nice to brag for a nano second. Now just must figure out a > practical application for all this that does not involve actual driving (or > being near a moving vehicle) or the need for a magical being to close all > the windows/programs he leaves open in his pursuit of ??? on computers. > > > > Hugs, > > Kris,-the tech impaired one who now wonders if son with " IQ " that tops > out at 18-30 months will be (or is) hacking. Snort, who knows. If feds knock > on door, I'll let ya know. What a world, what a world... > > > > PS: ACH! Maybe it is not Martian he is speaking. Maybe it is binary code. > ACH! > > > > > -- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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