7/15/92 9:00 Philadelphia time
So , we're off . (She smiled when the plane was taking off.) Kat is having a hard time falling asleep. She's hopping all over her seat. Now she got a book ..... wanted tapes. I red her the snow white story instead .
I'm glad I told them to switch us by the window . It would have been a pain to have someone else sit with us. We got an extra seat , which was super. She was covering her ears again. and is looking at snow white book. Three more hours ! ...
7/15/92 1pm Phila time we landed in Salt Lake City Utah about 1 1/2 hour ago, First thing Kat said was " red car ". We went to the gift shop she picked out the "three little pigs " " book " and I got a card for Bridget. She asked for pizza but I decided to wait until airplane. We're about to leave SaltLake City. She's just listening to sleeping Beauty over and over & over again for past hour keeps rewinding parts.
The flight is supposed to last 1hr20mins that better than the other 4hrflight before I was going crazy .
We had lunch on the plane. We got off ok . Went to baggage claim. As we stood there a man approached me and Asked me if I was Mrs. Highet , Told me he was parked in a car across the street , bronze . ( The agency told me that the car was silver so I got a little suspicious . I told him that I forgot the name of the agency and he said It was transporter so Iwas ok. When we got to the car it was silver & had name of company on it so I was relieved . He drove us through Portland even though it was slightly out of the way so I felt good , he was a nice person after all .
We rode with a window open. Kat was hot red . The temperature was in high eighties which he said was unusual for them. Told me of all the preparations for the Earthquake and that made me worry a little . But hopefully we get to miss that excitement .
We got to the hotel he helped us bring the baggage inside. In the hotel the people were trying to be said said that the " Center of Autism is doing a really good job ", " of course it doesnot help everyone " " but a lot of people have been helped.
My sarcastic part of me was going to say " You were one of them . The business must be good " but I just said "that's great !"
We got to our room it was nice and clean but it was loaded with deodorizers which makes me sneeze constantly . The pool is little but heated. But I decided to wait until we go to see Dr. E. and ask his opinion. Iam also worried that if I show her how to get there she might weasel out by herself while I'm sleeping.
We had quiet time she listened to Sleeping beauty on head phones . We went to dinner to the restaurant in front of hotel . She was funny she kept giving me looks . She kept stealing my rice and if I scolded her for it kiddingly she would grin . Afterwards we went for a walk tried to find the place but we had to run back since she had to go to the bathroom.
We watched her and by 6:30 Oregon time she fell asleep .
4:20 Oregon Time she got up and we didn't go to sleep. gave her a shower she did not like the watergoing on her hed .
( Now she's putting blanket over my head and keeps peeking at me . ) She likes to dry hands on the air conditioner & look out the window . She doesn't have much to do . )
She asked for " yellow. " She taperecorder with headphone but I hid it last night since she wont be allowed to use it anymore
Now we're off to eat breakfast
10 Am we met with Dr. E. He was nice he handed me a load of papers to fill out. Kat played with the books there. We went to do the hearing test but for some reason Kat kept crying through the test but she did raise her hands when she heard the sounds . Her hearing was recorded as normal .
Then we went to another room . Temple Grandin's (T.G.'s) squeeze machine was there . Kat was supposed to sit in a chair and listen to the different sounds . Instead she would hop around watching herself on TV and sang "This is the song that never ends from lamb chop." She did not react at most sounds but she smiled when the broken glass sound & Fireworks sund were sounding . After we were done we went to a store we walked by highway 99 which she did not like. It was hot. She asked to go to the bathroom but there was noplace real close . She repeated the request to go to the "bathroom" we finally got closer to McDonald's .
We had lunch there. The store was right behind McDonald's. We shopped around she looked at toys and picked out two books . We were coming back but we chose another directions instead of walking on the highway we got to walk through residential area filled with little houses , but well maintained. It was hot and Kat decided to ask for " bathroom " again . We tried to run back but the heat was awful. We made it through .
I filled out the papers , promised Kat that we would go swimming and we went back to the center for study of Autism. One of the moms working there came outside with me and we talked a little. Her son was 29 and he did not speak . She did say that a week after auditory training he said mama for the first time. She also uses facilitated communication to communicate with him. I have a tough time believing in facilitated communication because if they can read why can't they pick out between two signs ? or directions ? But May be it does work .
We went back to hotel to stay away from the heat . She listened to sleeping beauty all day long . <------- around there I decided to take her to the pool . The ground was burning her feet. She had fun in the pool but the eaer plugs would not stay in . She wanted to jump into the deeper end . she did jump into it which was over her head and grabbed my hand soon after her head bopped out of water . she pulled herself along side the wall .
Around 5pm we got a call from the center . They informed me that Kat's session will be at 9 AM and 3PM . I thought at first that it might be hard since we can't go anywhere but since I did not rent a car that's not going to make much difference.
We had dinner and talked to Bridget &Dad she had a tough time falling asleep . Fell asleep around 8 pm but got up again around 4 : 25 AM Oregon time she has not switched her hours yet . We had early breakfast & went to supermarket. She cried all the way to supermarket and covered her ears on the way back . There are a lot of trucks on Rt . 99 .
Now we're getting ready for the session . Everytime I say she is going to listen to music she cries. I hope we do better once we get there.
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