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[RC] My Version of a Shay Days - Nat NelsonMy daughter is an autistic adult (she's 26). She attends a day program that she throughly enjoys. The group goes out into the community daily and helps out hear and there - one of my daughter's favorite activities is Meals on Wheels. She loves to help out and talk and the individuals needing meals delivered to their homes, and they enjoy the food and someone to talk to. Many times her "instructer" has to honk the horn to get her to come back to the car so they can go to the next house :0) When she first went to her new day program she was very nervous - her autisium doesn't help when we change her routine. When she came into the room she saw a familar face "LARRY!" she explained! "BARBARA!" Larry yelled happily back! The instructors where amazed as Larry came to them mute due to a tramatic experience and hadn't spoken for the entire time he attended the program - until he saw my daughter . . . "Barbara's new, I'll show her the ropes" he explained like he had all the confidence in the world and Barb happily walk by his side while he showed her all the rooms in the building! The one day my daughter went to visit a new prospective group home. The other resident was physically disabled with celbral palsy (sp?). She was bond to a wheel chair and vocally limited to grunts and moans. My daughter was introduced to the other resident and she immeadiatly went over to the couch to sit next to her and proceded to talk to her with the other gal happly grunting and moaning smiling from ear to ear! Her caretaker told us that is was highly unusual for her to even look at someone she doesn't know much less try to communicate! Then my daughter found out that it was the gal's birthday and she immeadiatly started singing Happy Birthday and got us all to sing along with the gal grinning from ear to ear! My daughter and her freinds have many "Shay Days" - it's simply amazing how the human sprit radiates in many shades of light. ~Nat~ Buckeye, AZ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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