We are delighted to share Iona’s update on Amy’s literacy journey. You can read more about Amy’s story HERE.

Sarah, Teach Us Too

When we were in the early days of Amy’s legal case, the Paediatric neurologist expert witness described Amy as one of the most severely disabled children in the country. Later on, an educational psychologist expert witness basically said there was little point in us bothering to do anything with her because her brain was so damaged it was at a dead end.

Amy’s health still impacts on her learning and due to hardly having any voluntary movement we have to rely on her only being able to answer yes or no by using a faint head turn or double blink.

We have been teaching her letters and she progressed onto reading simple books but recently her teacher has been offering her the alphabet letter by letter to chose from so that she can spell out what she wants.

This is clearly a slow process, and some messages can take her a few days to compose but I have attached her first 6 attempts at messages to friends and family.