More about Jim (13 yr old)

Posted by Barb on September 11, 2003, 7:11 am

The link in the previous post was my description of some of Jim's progress on AB since we started 1 year ago.

I have been telling everyone I know with a challenged child about the program. When we went to family camp in July, a friend with an Asberger's child mentioned the difference between Jim's behaviour last year and what he was doing this summer. She said "Barb, your family is a living advertisement for Audiblox. If you remember, last summer Jim just sat by your side the whole week whenever he could, and kind of twitched. And now look at him." He was at that moment off with two other boys, talking and making friends. He made a friend the first day, and also at another church's Vacation Bible School where he knew no one and wasn't in the same class with his brother.

We took off the whole summer, and lost some ground, but after just 1 1/2 weeks, Jim is again more cheerful and confident. He has a long way to go to be level with his age group, but the issues that the program has addressed have improved a great deal, and I'm looking forward to further progress in other areas as they are covered, too.