{"id":274,"date":"2010-06-22T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/06\/the-comprehensive-nature-of-care.html"},"modified":"2010-06-22T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T08:52:11","slug":"the-comprehensive-nature-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/06\/the-comprehensive-nature-of-care.html","title":{"rendered":"The Comprehensive Nature of Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new post at BLOOM<\/a> (a blog for parents of children with disabilities) called “Care Notebooks Keep you Organized.” It begins: <\/p>\n

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I call it Penny’s “Helen Keller moment.”<\/p>\n

Remember the scene from The Miracle Worker<\/em> where Helen Keller understands for the first time that every word has a sign? That language is available to her, and that she can understand and be understood?<\/p>\n

For us, it happened when Penny was 15-months old. We’d been working on sign language for months at that point, and she had picked up a few signs through countless repetition. “Food.” “Drink.” “More.” But that day, it was raining outside. A torrential rain, drumming on the slate roof and pooling on the ground. I held her on my hip as we looked out the window. I pointed and said, “Look, Penny, rain.” I wiggled my fingers through the air. She looked outside, looked at me, and signed “rain.” And then I pointed to the big tree. “Look, Penny, tree.” And I signed tree. Again, she looked outside, looked at me, and signed “tree” in a response. Within a month, she had fifty signs and was eager for more. Something had clicked.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To keep reading, click here<\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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