Personal, appropriate bread

I got a hand written letter from one of my students today.  Her aide read it over before giving it to me to make sure all the contents of the letter were appropriate.  The period before, she had asked me what I had for breakfast and I told her toast with butter so this letter makes total sense to me :-)

Hey Sabio, How are you?
I just thought about buying ash bread.
Did you ever had ashbread?  That bread is with lavasha.
I was just thinking about buying personal bread.  But it's appropriate bread.   
I was thinking about buying it.
Would you like to have a piece of cheese.
There is a certain piece of cheese I like to eat.  American cheese is what I like.  I love watermelon.
Would you recommend getting watermelon.
We asked questions about watermelon.
One piece of watermelon. 
Do you like watermelon?
Do you love strawberries too?

As I was leaving the room with the letter she had written me, she asked me, "will you write me back?" So sweet! 

Day 2 in the books.  

Night Owl

I need to premise this entry by stating that by sharing this story, I'm not stating my opinion, in one way or another about teenage pregnancy.  I was just disturbed by this conversation but at the same time, it was one of the most hilarious things.

I was teaching a lesson on sleep related idioms.  The idiom night owl came up.  It was defined and one the senior girls in the class (whose disability is Speech/Language Impairment), happened to be about 4-5 months pregnant, chimed in, and the conversation went something like this:

Student:  Oh I'm a night owl!
Me: You are?
Student: Yeah, I stay up until about 3am with my friends just hanging outside in my neighborhood.
Me:  Um, you shouldn't do that, you're pregnant, you should probably get as much as rest as you possibly can right now.
Student: nah, I'll get some rest when the baby comes.

I literally laughed out loud!  Sorry, no you're not.

I truly hope that mom and if baby has arrived, are doing well.    

Ding!

After almost two and half months of summer, I'm not exactly thrilled to go back to work full time.  It's the students that make my long hours bearable, like this student I've described below.  

The student that this post is about has been working on using appropriate voice volume.  I have this app on my iPad (Voice-o-Meter) that dings if your voice is too loud or dings if you're too soft (parameters have to be manually set). This student's voice is very strong.  He always sounds so passionate, but his volume could be bothersome in a classroom setting, especially when he begins to get agitated.  

One day, during a speech session, I had the app turned on to monitor everyone's voice volume in the group, when every time this student spoke, it would ding indicating his volume was too loud.  He would continue, it would ding.  He would keep going, it would ding again.  Finally, after it had dinged a handful of times, he says at the top of his voice, "Ugh! Curse my lungs!!"

Needless to say, the iPad dinged.

Don't be racist...

A client of mine was telling me about how her family is watching her grandmother's dog while she is on vacation.  Here is the gist of that conversation.

Client:  We got a new puppy!
Me:  You did, what kind?
Client:  Well, it's my grandma's dog, Sophie and we're watching her while is going on vacation somewhere.
Me:  Oh ok.  That's nice that Po (her dog) has another dog to play with for awhile.
Client: Yeah, but my dad doesn't like Sophie, because she shakes (she's a chihuahua), and barks.  Ugh, my dad.  I told him to stop being racist!!
Me (chuckling to myself):  I don't think you mean racist.  Racist refers to people, not dogs.
Client: Oh, like the color of someone's skin?
Me:  Yes, something like that.
Client:  Oh.....

Glad we cleared that up.  If you didn't guess it already, one of her goals is on word finding.  

Little Football Fan

Client:  Do you like USC?
Me:  I watch more pro football.  Do you like USC?
Client:  Yes!
Me:  Why?
Client:  Because they are Notre Dame's rival!

This kid is 4 years old!!  We've had many a football conversations.  I would love him, but he's a Broncos fan, boo!!!! :-)

Joke of the Day

Brought to you by my 11 year old client.

What did the dog say to the other dog?
You're a hot dog.

I laughed out loud :-)

When I Have Kids...

As I sat down to begin a session with one of my private clients, this random comment popped out of her mouth.

Client:  When I have a baby, I'm going to continue breasting.
Me (confused):  What?
Client:  Yeah, I don't want to give my baby regular milk cause they will get sick so I'll just breast my baby.
Me:  You mean breastfeeding.
Client:  Oh yeah that.
Me: And why are we talking about babies and breastfeeding?  Did I bring up babies or did we talk about this last week?
Client:  Well, I might want to be a mom someday and so I have to think about these things.

She's 11, therefore I was speechless.

I took this opportunity to remind her that when she wants to talk about something she needs to introduce it so people (like me) are not completely confused!  She restarted.

Client:  So, I was watching this show, called "So Random" about feeding babies...

Apparently it's a Disney show??