Saturday 3 November 2007













This is a series of photos showing Calvin's
progress down his Incline Floor. He'll go down it in a minute or two now. It's at a height that makes it easy to go down but without him sliding down.

It gives him exercise, but the main purpose is to teach his brain that his arms are there and they can be used to propel him. It should hopefully also help his vision converge. Slowly by slowly we'll be lowering it as his ability hopefully increases. He's going down better and better, day by day. He's wearing his anti-roll device. He wears that to dissuade him from using rolling as a means of mobility.

We built the floor a couple weeks ago. We'd been trying to find somewhere to build it for us for a month, and we finally decided to just figure out the dimensions, get the wood cut, and do it ourselves. We cut apart a couple old wooden beds we had in the basement for the floor's finished surface.

Anyway, here are the pictures, plus a movie at the end! Just scroll down to see:

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