Re: AS kids have low IQ'S...yeah, right

[Guest guest]

-Oh Amber I couldn't agree more! I cannot tell you how many times my

husband and I or my daughter's teachers have said the same thing. My

daughter is 7 and doing amazing now-I still am floored everyday at

what she knows/learns. She comes home from school and will do math

sentences or read something new and its still a thrill. Last year she

was in a grandparents day chorus concert at school...well, her

teacher had been telling me I had to sneak in(it was for grandparents

only) to see her...she was up there singing and doing all the hand

motions right along with everyone else...I of course sat there

bawling. She is a computer wiz-we get her a new program and she

figures it out on her own. You must be so excited your son loves his

Barney computer!! Just wait until he gets on a " real " one!!!!!!

Thanks for your happy note-it made me smile.

Kathy -- In

@y..., veggieme@a... wrote:

> Hi everyone,

>

> Another example of the non-communicative child not being of

necessarily low

> IQ...Spencer got a Barney laptop computer from Santa for Christmas.

It's just

> a little plastic, battery-operated thing that asks the kid to push

the button

> to find various colors, shapes, animals, items, and numbers. Well,

Spencer

> can't say " blue square " or " firetruck " , but he can very

consistently push the

> button to find whatever Barney is asking for. I was amazed to find

out how

> much he really knows. Oh, and he's not yet two and 1/2. So, for all

of you

> who wonder about your child's capacity for understanding, don't

sell him/her

> short. There really is more going on inside than they can tell us.

>

> Amber

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