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an Big Red travelled from Michigan to attend the Southern Ontario Vans Club Cerebral palsy victim talks through symbol board KlltHENER Ont tli ameron allfas of Waterloo is friendly outgoing 22year old He likes people and he enjoys communicating with them But he has problem tameron suffers from severe cerebral palsy He has dif ficulty communicating orally because he lacks the muscular coordination necessary for controlled movement and speech It has been frustrating and isolating lint last October this changed neighbor Suzanne Stark of Waterloo who is teacher of the disabled cracked the communication barrier She introduced tameron to symbol board which enables him to express his wants and needs lilissymbolics is finger pointing system designed to teach by symbols those unable to read Under each symbol is it corresponding printed word Ilt SYMBOLS well as symbols for words there is also svmbol for action DAY BIG RED WAS HERE Truekln at Molsons Park on the weekend The truck which has 10 headlights was that turns noun into verb For example when the action symbol tops the word mouth it becomes the verb to speak Similarly with the sign legs when topped with the action symbol it becomes the verb to walk Cameron and three nonrverr bal people were the first physicallydisabled adults in the KitchenerWaterlm area to participate in the 526258 Local Initiatives Program llrl grant program headed by Mrs Stark Prior to applying for the LIP grant Mrs Stark had been teaching six disabled adults spelling reading history and geography Because of lack of facilities when they were children they could read little or not at all Cameron member of the Class was so enthusiastic he rarely missed class Being nonverbal however he limited his questions to yes or no answer RESIUNDICI WELL Mrs Stark felt better com municat ion method be one of about 725 vans at the meeting As well as competi tions for the best vans there developed tor these adults so she visited the Ontario Centre for Crippled Children in Town to to observe the Blissymlmlics method of fingerpointing com munication She found champion in Shir ley lVlcNaughton program di rector of the Blissymbolics Foundation in Toronto Mrs McNaughton pioneered the communication method at the crippled childrens centre in 1972 The symbols were devised in 1942 by Austrianborn chemical engineer Charles Bliss to pro mote international un derstanding He had no idea it would be 20 years before the method would be used and its first use would be at the crip pled childrens centre by physicallydisabled youngster Mrs Stark and her team of five found that the disabled adult students responded well to the symbols method Being able to speak to others eased their frustration DESIREIOSPEAK Classes were held three days week at the extended wing of One spray kills untol5duys DAY antic 555 Acttcn you Jihnt ixn ts titan bug til the apt tC iv am down the curtain Action mt unit tolls thing Stark tad Triple 17 Nate aristxts fy UNIONkitlil1l twtmnl Kr Mt IA titt 2239 Barrie Examiner Wednesday August 1976 Yes Miracle With low prices every day on items CANADA GRADE EGGS DOZEN Partly Skimmed FRESH MILK OT BAG OR JUG Plus deposit on jug Homogenze Pasteurized tPlus deposut on lug were sporting contests for the drivers tlflxaininer lho to 22 Granulated WHITE SUGAR kg BAG HOMO MILK 3m bag or jug the klllltlltlrWflllltltl Hospital and on the remaining two days the team practised with students in their own set ting The students shared the basic disabilities nonfunctional speech and limited use of bands and arms auses of disabilities range from accident stroke and cerebral palsy to Parkin sons disease Cameron has done remarkably well said Mrs Stark Unable to read he has grapsed the meaning of sym bols and his vocabulary has ex panded from to symbols session to This enables him to speak on several different topics in the afternoon Cameron and his instructor Barry Clark former teacher have developed firm frien dshipv They both enjoy speaking 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