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[James A. Davison]

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.	-James R. Cook
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.	Walt Disney
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.	W. Edwards Deming

Did those bus drivers regret singing?
If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.	-Yiddish proverb

I get from most parents is ?Can you teach my child to talk?? This question has haunted me for years. Did Alfred's niece like playing well?
Toren came to me at age 32 months. He had 2 words: Ma Ma and Bye Bye. He could not focus, but ran around the room. His mother was convinced I was going to have him cured by his third birthday. I told her I was no miracle worker, but we'd do what we could during the next 4 months. Immediately we started structuring Toren's day. I went home and worked up a program called 'Toren's Nouns'. The first day I showed Toren the program, he looked at it for 10-15 seconds and then left the computer. The next day he stayed about 30 seconds. Each day he built up more time at the computer. By the second week, he would sit on my lap for 10 minutes pressing whichever word he wanted to hear. But he spoke no sounds, no words. Three weeks passed. I began berating myself. 'See, Jo, you thought this noun program was so great. Look at Toren, he's not learning anything.' The fourth week Toren walked over to the computer, picked up the overlay from the IntelliKeys keyboard, pointed to 10 different words and approximated each word. That day, I cried. I am not missing surfing.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.	-Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
About happiness There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.	-Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.	-Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.	-Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)