[tri-med] Re: Carolyn & Mike

Hi Carolyn,

Sounds like Mike has a great future in the special olympics. He has a 
lot in common with Michelle Waite's Alex, who does "karate" (can't 
remember the exact one).

What do you hope to do when you leave college?

Your email warmed my heart.

At 10:27 AM 30/01/2009, you wrote:
>Since some people have asked about Mike I'll be happy to tell. We 
>are from Chicago Illinois, Mike is 17 and I am 19. We started some 
>units on Genetic disorders in my Bio class so I started looking into 
>Mike's condition which is how I found the list. Mike is not verbal. 
>He has worked with speech therapists, but is just unable to form any 
>words. Mike communicates through a few different ways. His school 
>has supplied him with what we call his "talker" a basic electronic 
>device with a touch screen that speaks for him, he also uses some 
>sign language, but only a few basic signs, please, hungry, thirsty, 
>that sort of thing, He has trouble with his hands sometimes, his 
>motor skills aren't that great. My mom and I can tell what he is 
>saying a lot of the time when he uses his voice by his tone and 
>inflection because we've been around him the most. He's a very 
>friendly guy who often suprises us with how many people he knows. We 
>get people who come up to us
>  when we are out to say hi to Mike or sometimes when people find 
> out my last name they'll come up to me and ask "are you Mike's 
> sister?" We are very involved in Special Olympics, Mike plays a 
> dozen sports a year at least. He is in kinda a trade program at 
> school. The kinda of program to gradually train special needs kids 
> on how to operate at work and in other places. He gets to go 
> through the graduation ceremony this year, but he is still going to 
> go back to school and be a super senior until he's 21. And he's a 
> typical teenager in some regards, at home he's my best friend wants 
> to do stuff with me, but the minute his friends are around he 
> pushes me away and is embarrased to be seen with me. And of course 
> his favorite thing in the world is Pokemon.
>
>
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Doesn't mean it doesn't exist"

Jocelyn,  wife to Frank,  Mother to Ian, Gillian and Susan, Nanna to 
Carly 21  Mathew 20,  Ashleigh 19, Alex 16,  and Tess  (Trisomy 18,) 
age 11 yrs,  & Benny the Maltese, plus one amazing DIL and two 
amusing SIL's of whom I'm very fond, and their extended family who 
are too many to list here.   

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