Thursday, October 8, 2009

You can do it, we can help!

So far we have 2 members in our team of volunteers who have committed to spending a few hours a week playing with Aditya.

Both of our volunteers are wonderful. I could easily write a page about each of them if I begin to talk about them! But basically these people:
1) are totally comfortable with playing what and how Aditya wants to play
2) love "joining" in with Aditya's chosen activity or topic of discussion to help him realize that his actions and words carry importance
3) love to innovate and gently introduce expansions that Aditya can "choose" if he feels like, in order to help him become flexible and comfortable with things or subjects outside of his fascinations
4) have a genuine desire to help Aditya "evaluate" if people are as cool as (and perhaps cooler than) his fascinations like vacuum cleaners, fans, trains, letters, numbers, etc
5) confident that ordinary people like them can help Aditya lose his diagnosis one day!

Wow, that's a lot of great qualities they have... but if I really look at them carefully... most of them are variants of just one thought: "YOU CAN DO IT, we can help".

Oh, wait... I think it's more like: "WE CAN DO IT... YOU can help!"
(YOU = Aditya)

Of course, we are still looking for volunteers, and just began looking for paid help too. Therefore if this seems exciting to you or someone you know, we would love to hear from you!

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