The Ahndjunope Man
Youngest son had a restricted frenulum as a child and so much of what he said was unintelligble and so we were always translating for him. This also meant that he came up with a number of mispronunciations for words. Hence... the Ahn-dju-nope Man. Ahndunopes are what mail comes in and is delivered by none other than the Ahndjunope man!! I'd be sitting on the throne in the bathroom, I'd hear the pitter patter of little feet and a gruffish voice would announce "Ahndjunope Man!" and an envelope would come shooting from underneath the door. It would be addressed to mom, with a fake stap drawn on one corner and a fake cancellation on top of that and inside would be a letter to me reading I (heart) U. and Signed with the youngest son's name always remembering to put 7 horizontal lines on the E in his name. (He liked the way it looked). Not bad for a 2 year old.
As for his E's. I taught him to write his name rather early. My defense is that no one told me little kids aren't able to write their names. Any hoo younger son held his pen in the oddest way guiding the pen with his ring finger instead of held between thumb and forefinger. Whenever he wrote his name there was always 7 line in his E. I didn't think anything of it until I took him to the County as step one in the process of seeing if his speech could be helped. There were 3 separate tests, a week apart and at the end there was their evaluation.
Casey had just turned 3 at the time and the evaluation went like this.
He knew all his letters other than Q and W (which we called double wary)
His gross motor skills were lacking because he couldn't HOP! (Oh the horror, a hopless son!)
His fine motor skills were lacking as well because he held his pen so oddly. I would have liked to see those women try to write that way. I asked them if they had bothered to show him the 'correct' way. No, they hadn't. I simply handed a pen to younger son, showed him how to hold it and to write his name.
That led into the 7 lines in the letter E and how that was "Wrong". Remember the son was 3. I asked themif they had asked son why he uses 7 lines and again the answer was no. I asked younger son how many lines did a real E have. He knew the answer of three and when I asked why he wrote seven, his answer was because he liked the way it looked. Made me want to reach across the table and smack the woman.
Their final analysis was that younger son had speech problems (no shit) and that he scored as high as a seven year old on all the tests and they suspected it would have been higher if age 7 was as far as the tests tested. And this was done by a three year old, ring finger pen manipulator, 7 line E writer, Ahndjunope MAN!
We did get the frenulum clipped and he went to speech in elementary school and in Kindergarten He had an 145 iQ and in the 6th grade standard tests graded him in the 99.9 percentile of all 10th graders who took the test.
HOWEVER THE KID STILL DOESN'T HOP!
As for his E's. I taught him to write his name rather early. My defense is that no one told me little kids aren't able to write their names. Any hoo younger son held his pen in the oddest way guiding the pen with his ring finger instead of held between thumb and forefinger. Whenever he wrote his name there was always 7 line in his E. I didn't think anything of it until I took him to the County as step one in the process of seeing if his speech could be helped. There were 3 separate tests, a week apart and at the end there was their evaluation.
Casey had just turned 3 at the time and the evaluation went like this.
He knew all his letters other than Q and W (which we called double wary)
His gross motor skills were lacking because he couldn't HOP! (Oh the horror, a hopless son!)
His fine motor skills were lacking as well because he held his pen so oddly. I would have liked to see those women try to write that way. I asked them if they had bothered to show him the 'correct' way. No, they hadn't. I simply handed a pen to younger son, showed him how to hold it and to write his name.
That led into the 7 lines in the letter E and how that was "Wrong". Remember the son was 3. I asked themif they had asked son why he uses 7 lines and again the answer was no. I asked younger son how many lines did a real E have. He knew the answer of three and when I asked why he wrote seven, his answer was because he liked the way it looked. Made me want to reach across the table and smack the woman.
Their final analysis was that younger son had speech problems (no shit) and that he scored as high as a seven year old on all the tests and they suspected it would have been higher if age 7 was as far as the tests tested. And this was done by a three year old, ring finger pen manipulator, 7 line E writer, Ahndjunope MAN!
We did get the frenulum clipped and he went to speech in elementary school and in Kindergarten He had an 145 iQ and in the 6th grade standard tests graded him in the 99.9 percentile of all 10th graders who took the test.
HOWEVER THE KID STILL DOESN'T HOP!
posted by ---me--- at Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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