Saturday, April 10, 2021

 Saturday, April 10, 2021 

              Yoga this morning as usual. The sun is coming up sooner. That means non-biting houseflies are dancing on us before the class is over. 

            After the class, I talked to Yvette and Scott about the window again. We’re still in a place where the window will remain on my guest room floor. Sadly, communication between Yvette and me is complicated. God, we are different people. We’re both good people who are happy for each other’s life successes and wish each other well. But we do not have a smooth relationship. There are some actual disagreements; moreover, there is no overlap of similarities that carry us through. Sad for both of us.

            I did some housekeeping and gardening and had a session with A at 11:30. When I went to pull up the work I had been doing with him, I saw I didn’t have enough for the session. To have a text we both can see, I type exercises from books I have. When we started with these exercises, he did one or two at a time. Now he does 5 to 7. He did seven today. At the beginning of the session, I heard a significant improvement in his reading- remarkable, really. His reading was faster and smoother. He just sailed through the three to four sentences per exercise with ease. Then he hit a wall. At the start of our session, he had no problem keeping b and d straight. All of a sudden, he was confused. Then he reversed sounds; for example, when blending a and m, he put the m sound before the a. I asked him if he was aware that he was reversing sounds. He said yes. I’m not convinced that’s true, but it would be great if it were. I asked him, “What have I told you to do when you reverse sounds?”  He didn’t know. Oh, boy. I had to lead him through cross-body blending again.