{"id":18255,"date":"2020-10-25T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/?p=18255"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:47:55","slug":"meet-liam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/uncategorized\/meet-liam","title":{"rendered":"Meet Liam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Meet Liam<\/h3>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cFrom the day Liam was born, I don&#8217;t know anyone who has worked harder learning. \u00a0His very first meal Liam strained to take the colostrum. \u00a0Tummy time was a struggle and walking was even more. \u00a0Scooting on his rear was a great way to travel for some time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/files\/2020\/10\/Liam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18260 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/files\/2020\/10\/Liam-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/files\/2020\/10\/Liam-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/files\/2020\/10\/Liam.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 Good thing Liam was also born with light-spirited demeanor. He is observant, curious and motivated to learn at his own pace, while somehow still managing to keep smiling and giggling and spreading joy to all he meets.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">We have never stopped learning along with him. When we finally thought we were starting to understand Down syndrome, Liam was also diagnosed with Autism. \u00a0Its been 4 years and much is a mystery, but some things are starting to make sense.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Autism opened a whole new unwritten chapter for us. \u00a0Teaching Liam is not something you find in a book. \u00a0All the rules for teaching and learning are different and something learned one day can quickly be gone until a week later. \u00a0Just recently the \u00a0pieces of the Liam learning puzzle are starting to connect. \u00a0 It is definitely more challenging because he has to work even harder but yet he always continues to surprise us.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">During this pandemic I&#8217;ve learned so much about him especially the way he learns things. I am amazed how well he navigates his AAC device and I actually learned how to use it from him. He has figured out how to drag and click objects to complete the goal work on the Chromebook screen within 2 weeks of E-learning (I didn&#8217;t even know that the laptop screen was a touch screen!).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We believe that Liam will continue learning and surprising us. Along with the wonderful community we have found, we will be there to support, encourage and love him as we will continue to grow together!\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">-written by mom, Lussyana<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Liam \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cFrom the day Liam was born, I don&#8217;t know anyone who has worked harder learning. \u00a0His very first meal Liam strained to take the colostrum. \u00a0Tummy time was a struggle and walking was even more. \u00a0Scooting on his rear was a great way to travel for some time. \u00a0 \u00a0 Good&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[796],"class_list":["post-18255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dsam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/foxvalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}