October- Day 13/14

Hey readerrrss!!!! SOOO sorry i missed yesterday!!! we had the haunted school for SLHS art club and didnt get home till like 9:30!!!! to make up for the missing a day ill post two facts about Rett Syndrome!!

Day 13-
              Did you know that girls with Rett Syndrome are in there? They are trapped in a body that doesnt function correctly. they can understand every single word you say. A phrase used for people with mental handicaps is "Mentally Retarded" but over the years the use of the derogetory term retarded has become more common when saying things are stupid or foolish. Even though Rett Syndrome takes away a girls abilities does that mean shes stupid? Does that give you the right to make fun of her every single time you say something is "retarded" or call someone a "retard"? what did this little girl ever do to you? For more information on the R-word check out http://r-word.org/ and help prevent the word retarded. for her

Day 14-
              My day 13 fact was kind of leading up to this but this fact is going to be about eye gaze computers and communcation devices. Even though girls with Rett Syndrome cant talk they can still communicate in some ways. Some girls (like em) have enough purposful hand movement to use devices like this! and others with less hand use, use eye gaze computers like THIS!  i must say that communcation devices are pretty amazing. Imagine not being about to talk to anyone and suddenly having a choice with the yes or no cards on these devices. Or being in pain and not being able tell where and then using the eye gaze being able to point it out. I hope that some day all of the people in the world that dont have words will be able to have one of these.

Thanks for visiting and once again SOO sorry about yesterday. so busy! Dont forget to order your bracelet now for only 4 dollars! They make GREAT christmas gifts!!