Hey Everyone - Happy Holidays, I have you all have merry jolly jiggling, but not jangling, fun!We're off to Maryland for a couple of days, but didn't want to run off without sharing this photo of Noa trying to not touch snow, and this terrific article that my mom forwarded to me from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121903035.html?referrer=emailarticle
The article is about a man blind after two strokes, who can navigate through hallway obstacle course without running into anything - leading doctors to believe that he is somehow using the information that is coming through his eyes even though he is unable to do what we would traditionally call "see."
In some ways this relates to the work we're doing with Noa. We know - thanks to a terrible test that we will never do again - that she is getting information through her eyes and that it is traveling to her brain. But what that information does... we have no way of knowing. The CVI therapy that we are doing with her assumes that her brain can make use of this information. This continues to be a controversial idea though to me it makes perfect sense. The brain likes to organize. We are organizing creatures. Information is coming in, the brain tries to figure out what to do with it! Since Noa's brain has no idea what to do with it, we have to help her brain figure it out. Basically.
And with that... a give you all a great big ho ho ho ho and away!
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