Marie's Web Log

We went back to Honeylands last Friday (Amelia and I). This time, in addition to playing with the nursery nurse, Amelia took part in some physical activities (or rather, looked on shyly for most of it) and had her eyes tested - though not for short and long sightedness, they'll do that later. This was for things like periperal vision and depth perception.

Apparently Amelia's depth perception is very good. Mine, however, is not. Amelia was sitting on my lap for the test, and the person doing the testing held up a card with four squares filled with what looked to me like random patterns. She asked Amelia to point to the one with the blue circle in, and Amelia pointed. Damned if I could see anything. I didn't have my glasses on, so I knew my vision wasn't perfect, but still. It's weird because I don't wear my glasses a lot of the time, but it's not like everything appears one-dimensional to me! It may partially explain why I'm so bad at ball sports like tennis...

Today the speech and language person, Jill, came to the house. Of course, Amelia's stuttering wasn't bad this morning - it's usually not too bad when she's not tired. Jill said Amelia's language does show a mild delay, which didn't surprise me. I'd already noticed that other kids of the same age tend to be more fluent, using longer sentences, etc.

Last Friday I also chatted to a child psychologist. He said this week he'll give Amelia an IQ test. I didn't know they still did those. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Waiting for my client to get back to me with final changes (I hope) on the book project. May get some work 'Americanizing' a math (or 'maths, as they like to say here) textbook. I did a sample as a test, and even though it was only Grade 6 level, it still made me feel a bit queasy. Just not a numbers person.