The other day when I wrote about my first day of the What To Do About Your Brain Injured Child course, I forgot to include a few things that were said that I think are worth repeating.
There is no correlation between brain injury and intelligence.
There is a staggering correlation between brain injury and the ability to express intelligence.
This hit home for me. I realized that the IQ test that was given to Z is a demonstrating his disability, not his ability. This is important for me to hear. The results from that test were depressing and I couldn’t help but wonder if these results were for the same child I brought into that room.
A brain injured child’s worst enemies are time and gravity.
While my kids don’t have issues with mobility, so gravity really has no effect on them. Time, now that’s another topic. The longer it takes us to find something that helps, the further and further behind they get. Problem is their peers keep developing, they keep moving forward. So if my boys are not moving forward, and their friends are, they keep getting left behind at a faster rate.
I woke up way before my alarm on Tuesday morning. And I was a bit stir crazy I couldn’t stay in my room. So I left and decided to go and get breakfast at Dunkin’ Donuts. I was really missing my Tim Hortons. Sadly Dunkin’ Donuts didn’t fill that void.
But I was still really early so I decided to go check out the local Walmart. I was so glad that I went for that early shopping spree because I found several items for Zs Leap pad for next to nothing. Like these LeapFrog Imagicards. Back home they cost $25+ dollars, I score them for $5 each!! I felt like the lady in the old IKEA commercial that comes running out of the store screaming “Start the car!!”
Afterwards I heading to the the IAHP campus. I walked into the auditorium to wait for What To Do About Your Brain Injured Child Course to start. Of to the front I went to look for my seat. I was lucky enough to get another good seat near the front.
While waiting for the bell, I wandered back into the bookstore like I do every time I have a few spare minutes. Adding a bit to my order, removing other things. I suggest that even though the bookstore is quite small, you spend a bit of time there each day. After the lectures something might catch your eyes that you looked over before hearing the lecture.
We spent the day learning about:
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Physiology vs pathology
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Function Determines Structure
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Watched a video about “Coma to Total Awareness”
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The Developmental Profile
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How to Evaluate Your Child
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What is a Functional Diagnosis?