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Re: One thousand fluent words from a picture.

From: Anders
Date: 10/16/00
Time: 3:21:51 AM
Remote Name: 146.21.116.174

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Hello, Javier. Nice to see you in Denmark as well.

I would like to add, again, that drawings or pictures is one channel of many. Children do prefer different modes of understanding. The most powerful responses I have had from children actually are not pictures but just the verbalization of what actually is perceived within them and together get into the obstacle (if that what it is) they feel. It may start with "something gets stuck inside" and we might come to what it is like in it surface, its hardness, its color, its size (and don't get bewildered if the obstacle is bigger than the building you sit in!)and weight, its smell and then perhaps its origin and age. I had a 11 year old with a huge rooster in his throat, no not the complete animal, but the head of the bird was stuck in the throat of the boy. After we ha discussed the bird at length I asked him if he could remove the rooster and place it on the chair next to him. He could, and after a while it was time to go again, of course. I at first thought I could ask the boy if I could keep the rooster, but something alarmed in my head and I said "hey, don't forget your rooster, it's all yours". The boy smiled, put the rooster back, we blinked at each other in sharing this very secret and after a few weeks; no more rooster. The best respect I could pay to him and his sharing his ugly secret with me was to let him keep his rooster, and also letting him have the victory of removal.


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