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FINAL PAGE 8-D THE IDAHO STATESMAN, Boise, Sunday, October 7, 1973 THAT'S THE WAY! A deaf-blind student gets 1 a spoonful of applesauce and a heap of praise from teacher's aide LeeAnn Hazen, Gooding. Mobility training and other self-help skills are given in a residential setting on the campus of the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind at Gooding. Deaf-Blind Children Get 2nd Chance at Gooding By KEITHA ROBINSON Statesman Correspondent GOODING All the successes of the children at the Idaho Deaf-Blind Center are double triumphs since both their vision and hearing are impaired. An aide holds out a spoonful of applesauce to one youngster on the floor. "Come on, boy, Get some applesauce.

You can make it!" And, slowly, he creeps toward the spoon. In classroom, an another, triumphantly picks up a card reading "bubble" and returns it to his teacher, who is ready with the bubble blower. Both the reading readiness exercise and the early mobility training are part of a program that has been underway since last year when the unit was set up on the campus of the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind at Gooding. "Deaf-blind education is a field of total possibilities. The more you work with them (the students) the more things they can do," said Jon Pike, recent San Francisco State, graduate who teaches older group of children.

Another teacher, Pam Jensen, who has a master of arts degree in special education from Peabody College in Nashville, added, "With these kids any type of activity is important anythey can do their thing, that's appropriate. "For instance, we have one little boy who sat all day with his head down. So we spent all of our time pushing his head up. Now that he holds it up, we're trying to get him to play with toys," she added. Surprisingly, finding deafblind children has been a problem, according to Lee W.

Robinson, director of the unit. The Idaho Legislature in 1972 passed into law a bill requiring physicians, optometrists, opthamologists. and pediatricians and others concerned with diagnosing children, to report cases of blindness. "So far we have received no reports of deaf-blind children, although we know there must be some, particularly in northern part of the state." Robinson said such reports usually come from the health department, but referrals are accepted from anyone. "If he can't do either then we go to fingerspelling a hand shape for every letter, which can be done in the air if they can see it or in the hand if they can only feel it," she said.

Testing the unit goes on continuously if informally. When a youngster has mastered the self-help skills, he is moved to the older group taught by Pike. Pike says his goals are to develop vocalization enough so they can express desires and to develop writing ability. To do this he must work on what sensory. modes (hearing, touching) that they have.

Their morning is an intricate pattern of group and individual teaching, depending on when Pike aide to help him. They begin with a good morning exercise designed to help them relate and identify with each other, then they draw pictures of their ears, eyes, noses and imitate where these organs are. Gross motor imitations like moving the tongue, combing hair or stretching the arms follow. Snack time for the older youngsters is important because they are expected to talk as much as they will. Individually the students are taught left-right sequencing, another pre-reading routine, with color patterns and auditory conditioning, where they do tasks to sound cues.

The final morning activity is likely to be a music therapy session where students imitate rhythm manipulate an instrument in some way. The afternoons are spent in physical therapy (gym) work. Two afternoons a week the group swims in the campus pool and Pike says his students enjoy that. They also attend arts and craft sessions on the campus. "It's a new field," Pike muses about deaf-blind education, "there aren't a lot of answers but there are new areas to work on." He said one of the goals is to try to integrate the children into more normal learning situations.

One deaf-blind girl is now a fulltime student in the blind department and another may soon be enrolled in the deaf department. The unit has 15 students, two who are too including, be away from home. By the time a student enters the unit, at age three or four, he usually has developed some means of expressing himself, according to Miss Jensen. "These children communicated at home by pointing or by bringing, an object the of the children we have now communicated by smiling or crying before they came she added. She said trying to figure out some means of communication with these children before they enter the unit is vital, and advised parents to make their youngster be as active and independent as possible.

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comprehensive plan is the for the city. developmenecifieseland land uses allowed in specific areas. Five "building blocks" are used in formulating a comprehensive plan. They are neighborhood analyses, and are done for the Warm Springs area, South Boise, the Bench, North Boise and downtown. Analyses the Warm Springs and South Boise areas were finished about 18 months ago, Wilhelm said.

The Bench is being worked on now. Land use maps are being drawn, and public opinions gathered during a series of neighborhood meetings are being analyzed. Wilhelm hopes for an Oct. 30 public hearing before the Boise Planning and Zoning Commission on the Bench neighborhood analysis. The matter should reach the City Council sometime in November, he said.

Things people on the Bench are most concerned about, Wilhelm said, are Dean Oliver's Rank Drops To 12th in National Rodeo Boise's champion calf ro- in per, Dean Oliver, who recently is reported spending more time on the golf course in than in a rodeo arena, has dropped to 12th place in 1973 winnings for calf roping. Oliver has won $12,355 to date on the national rodeo circuit, while an Oregon cowboy, Jeff Copenhaver of Long Creek, has captured ninth place in roping calves with $13,498. Two Oregon men are high on the list of contenders for the all-round cowboy title for this year. They are Doug Brown of Silverton, in fifth $34,146, and Leo Camarillo of Donald, in sixth place with $31,948. Camarillo holds first place in team roping for.

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Ada Council of Governments planners have done studies presenting various solutions to traffic tangles on these arterial streets, but officials have taken no action beyond studying the studies. Once action is taken on the Bench neighborhood analyses hopefully in November work will begin on North Boise. Downtown vill HUNTERS' HEADQUARTERS CLOSED THIS SATURDAY ONLY RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY Open This Sunday Only 11 A.M. TO 3 P.M. Ca Koppels Browseville 30th Fairview Boise in winnings.

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