Keep your leotards on, this is not Brazil.
I LOVE MY PLACEMENT!
When I first found out that most of the kids I’d be working with at Ephesus are developmentally delayed and/or have autism, I was a kind of scared. But I love them. They’re so cute and wonderful. I have a few artic kids on my caseload. With the others ones I get to read and play games and play dress up and make books and take pictures. My supervisor told me that usually she lets the grad students observe her for a week or two and then they pick up one kid every few days. But since there isn’t much time left in the school year, I was just thrown into doing the therapy after only observing her with the kids once. That was scary. There are a bunch of places in NYC now that are hiring CFYs to work with developmentally disabled kids and AAC devices. Hopefully in a year there’ll be other similar positions. Oh yeah and on that first day that I did therapy I programmed and used my first ever AAC device. I also learned how to make Jeopardy on PowerPoint.
You know how when one part of your life goes great another part goes not so great? Well. School is going great. And all the boy problems are finished. BUT I now have proof that my brother is doing something I wish he wasn’t and I don’t know what to do. If I just say something to him he won’t listen. I can threaten him. I can tell my dad. But this will make my dad super angry. So I’m stuck. Ugh.
I’m excited about the Indiana Jones movie this Friday. AND I’m super excited about the Sex and the City movie.
Hurray for little kids that need to go to speech therapy!
-Me
P.S. If you know anybody who is looking for a place to live starting August, let me know…
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