Monday, September 3, 2012

I past the retake of my exam it was a good evaluation

I past the retake of my exam it was a pretty good evaluation, with the screen reader I could indeed read the instructions independently as many times as I liked. Although I began to get a little panicky towards the end of the exam when I began to get tired it certainly cut down on the normal anxiety that I feel when doing tests, and it was more straightforward for me. I did not have to think about a person sitting next to me looking over what I am doing. I feel very pleased with the outcome however I still need a little bit of practice with the technology I am using to make the best of what it offers me.
I have also been playing around with Google calendar and using it to get focused on upcoming exams and the rest of the course, the important thing is that the system I am designing in Enham I can take with me when I leave so that I do not have two relearn or redevelop things when I am in work or self-employment. And Lorraine of Enham seems supportive and encouraging of the systems I am constructing and what I am trying to do.
After hearing some of my concerns about STEPS, Enham asked me to explain to clients what STEPS does and what my concerns were, however I declined this because I did not feel that I could take responsibility for a program such as STEPS and what it might do to people with certain cognitive issues. To begin with you need both diagnosis and treatment to deal with cognitive problems. STEPS is simplicity itself in that it is a therapy that diagnosis the same behaviour issues for everybody furthermore gives them exactly the same treatment unfortunately when you are dealing with certain individuals with incredibly complex problems that approach seems to me lazy and careless at best.
I also spoke to Steve from Solvit Ltd he explained he would get on with the programming for the 3-D plotter, and let me know what he finds this week as I was a little worried about the speed of progress.


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