Learning Language · Tuesday October 16, 2007 by Rose
This afternoon we went to visit another HE family, where the boys had a chance to play and us two mums had a chance to chat and cacth up. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, not only do the boys have more friends with wider interests than they had at school, but my social life is better too!
JJ worked on his blog again today, with corrections from me. SJ was not really very focused today – we are in that part of his cycle that is more negative – so instead he’d spent the morning helping WD on the computer. He also went on Neopets again.
The deal with Neopets has always been that they have to do some of the “learning” style games when they are on there Games like Animal Genius, Word Pyramid, Typing Terror (which I’m rather good at!), or Maths Nightmare. It seems to work ;0)
Interestingly, this evening we had some conversations about adverts. With the literal interpretation of an aspie, these can be quit a problem. However, we’ve now opened SJ’s eyes to “small print” which hopefully should protect him in the future. Today he was commenting on illogical language – “kills all known germs dead” – I mean, what else would they be if they were killed?!
Small as this sounds, for a kid with Semantic/Pragmatic Disorder, looking at the meaning and use of words in such detail as this is progress.
