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All Children’s: Joey keeps learning even in hospital

My son, Joey, was diagnosed as a seizure child several years ago. When I first found out, I used netTrekker to find information for myself and for his teachers. Periodically we have to do a 48 hour study where they monitor his staring spells (petite mals) and his sleep habits. We’re in All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg right now for our latest check up. They have just built onto the hospital and it is beautiful! Joey has a private room, the nurses are FANTASTIC, and the volunteers are great. In Joey’s room he has this nice size TV that is controlled by a keyboard. He has movies, television, older arcade style games, and the Internet.

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And while it’s summer, Joey is still working on school activities. This morning we worked on math. We started with a netTrekker search, refreshed his memory on addition rules with BrainPOP and then he moved onto his workbook pages. His reward for doing the math problems was to read “Belly Up” (he thinks the silly fish is named after him), and to play other games on BrainPOP Jr. Then we went back to our netTrekker search and he played another game that he found using the refinement menu. All on the cool TV.

I made a quick Animoto Video to showcase him using the keyboard and the netTrekker and BrianPOP screen-shots.

This hospital is so cool! And the nurse assigned to Joey also thinks that netTrekker and BrainPOP make a cool combo.

Tags: BrainPOP, netTrekker, petite mals, seizure child