Juniordwarf hasn’t played with a lot of technology. He can operate his little CD player and the DVD player (with a nervous parent or two supervising).
I gave him a old computer keyboard that he does his ‘work’ on. (He doesn’t say what his work actually is; it’s just ‘work’ and he is sometimes very busy doing it.)
A couple of days ago he set the keyboard up on his dressing table, put the computer shaped squeezy stress toy that I gave him next to it and set up two chairs. He sat on one and Blue Teddy sat on the other and they both did some work on their computers.
He’s started very slowly typing words on his keyboard – mainly his name, ‘Mum’, ‘Dad’ and other words he remembers how to spell. He’s also had a few times typing on a real computer and seeing the words come up on the screen.
Today I was doing some stuff on my computer and I asked Juniordwarf if he wanted to send his aunt an email. So I helped him type it out. This was the result:
From: juniordwarf@juniordwarf.com
Subject: hhhhhelloooooooooooo
Date: 31 May 2011 2:02:54 PM AEST
To: aunty@lilsis.com.au
dear aunty lilsisssss
jjjjjjuniordwarff
juniordwarfmum
dad
pqowmnkryt
i 41112111111111111111111111ijjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
Before he deleted the last 14 or so rows, each line following this was a number from 1 to about 14.
As he was typing each number he said, ‘when I was little I was 1.’ ‘When I was little I was 2.’ . . . ‘After my 4 I’m gonna be 5.’ ‘After my 5 I’m gonna be 6.’
And so on.
After we sent the email, he got his alphabet book and started typing out the words in that book. He got up to G for giraffe before he got bored, and that was the end of that.
It was fun helping him.
I was very excited to get my email!
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