On October fourth MaryAnn Shaw (one of Joey’s grandmothers and a special education professor) and I had the opportunity of presenting our research on Joey at the Pennsylvania Council for Exceptional Children’s conference. Other than this blog this was my first opportunity to share Joey with the world.
It was an intimidating task. Although we are tracking Joey’s progress as a single case study, Joey feels like so much more than that. Single case study sounds impersonal and scientific, and Joey is anything but that. He’s an active, engaging four year old. Attempts at remaining scientific are hard because the true nature of working with kids is messy. Things happen. Equipment breaks. Distractions happen. Jokes turn into side tracked lessons. [Read more…]
“Love. Love. Love,” Joey said to me after we read the book 
When I arrived at Joey’s house on Friday afternoon he was in a great mood. He was giggling and excited to read, and his personality shone throughout our whole session. We were reading The Gruffalo, which is about a mouse and an imaginary yet real scary monster. As we read about the scary Gruffalo with his terrible teeth in his terrible jaws, I tried to use it as an opportunity to model using body part words like teeth, tongue, knee, leg, back, etc. 
“Turkey ready pool love” Joey said as we read 
Have you ever heard the expression “As
