ktw@whuxi.UUCP (WOLMAN) (12/20/84)
A few weeks back I posted to the net about Jacob, my older son who is perceptually impaired. I mentioned at the end of the posting how much he had been helped by our school system in Wayne, NJ. Well, look at that subject header! It's been an inviolable custom in our house that I read to the kids (usually two stories) each night between bath and bed. For the last few weeks, Jacob has been struggling with stringing words together from the printed page, and last night he beat the frustration and began sounding out words without prompts from Old Dad. I have never seen a look of such--yes!--beatitude on anyone's face in my life! Any praise from me was superfluous: his face was an extremely accurate indicator of his pride in his own achievement. And I couldn't talk anyway, because Ben, Jake's three-year-old brother, was busy standing on the bed trying to clothesline me with his mighty little forearm. . . . Well, I thought it would be a nice change from Velcro. . . . Ken Wolman Bellcore @ Livingston Corporate Center whuxi!ktw (201) 740-4565