Whenever I see Noa playing with water like this, it's hard not to think about "The Miracle Worker." Of course it makes perfect sense that "water" was Helen Keller's first word - water provides so much imput! Noa has been big on washing hands for a while now (she does sign for hand-washing), but this new trick is fairly recent and quite a funny and ingenius way to get the water into her mouth. Strangely, while she'll drink water from the sink or a shower or the swimming pool (try as we may to stop her) she absolutely will not drink it from a bottle.
Just to update on the signing situation - the doctor put Noa on a 2 week course of Claratin to try to clear out the liquid behind ear drum, so we're working on that. In the meantime we've gotten a preliminary report from the audiologist which we hope will be of some help since it basically says that Noa doesn't respond normally to their tests (which require the subject to LOOK at the noise, or turn toward the noise, which of course she doesn't do but perhaps it'll be enough for the Board of Ed to give in). The audiologist did mention that Noa communicates with sign and that if she knew more sign language they'd have better luck testing her. So, thanks audiologist so trying to make the point for us - any little bit helps!
Ben and I were to start our sign language lessons last Tuesday, but we had to re-schedule so we're starting this Tuesday.
IN OTHER NEWS my mom recently sent me a link so some information about a really cool theater group called Nalaga'at that does theater with the deaf-blind. It's run by the same folks that run the famous restaurant Blackout in which all the servers are blind and the restaurant is entirely in the dark. Anyway - this theater group blew me away!
They are working to convey the world as they experience and have come up with fantastic ways to do create theater that speaks to their experiences. As one might imagine, I've thought quite a bit about what theater for the blind would be (not just descriping what happens, but making the experience more involved). At the end of the day, I think this is theater for the hearing-sighted by the deaf-blind... but I think it hold a lot of things that would be great if you were deaf or blind or deaf-blind and it certainly helped my thinking about it. Anyway, I invite... no encourage... you to check out clips from their performance. It's way cool: http://www.nalagaat.org.il/en/
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