Making Music, Doing Math
Charlie just finished practicing the piano—this now takes about half an hour—with me standing by. (I recall reading a week or so ago about 18-year-old Brittany Meier who is blind and who has autism, and who “can play on the piano just about any song she’s heard, including “Piano Man” and “Ave Maria,” though she can barely speak.)
As I discovered when I visited him at school last week, Charlie has learned to use a calculator and is adding double-digit numbers.
Just today I came across this gadget, a calculator with numbers on the keys that plays music—-but would it confuse Charlie?……..one to add to the what he might want want list.
3 opinions for Making Music, Doing Math
laurentius-rex
Dec 10, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Now why is it that she *is* blind, yet *has* autism
Thats what gets me, you have a very considerable mind je pense and yet you slip on these little inconsistencies
Maybe she *has* blindness and *is* autistic,
s’funny people used to be scared of the epithet “blind” Well you know what they say in regione caecorum …. Goodness me you can’t even limp nowadays but that someone will periphrase it out of meaningfull existance into the coy world where limbs were unmentionable.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Dec 10, 2007 at 10:26 pm
thanks for catching me—–well, in ancient Greek and Latin, the verb “to be” is used to indicate possession (writing too many sentences for final exams is having an effect…..).
Daisy
Dec 10, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Depending on who you ask, some causes of blindness are genetically linked to forms of autism. My son’s primary disability is his congenital blindness; his Asperger’s, diagnosed later, is just as important to us (family) but is considered secondary by doctors and teachers.
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