{"id":1116,"date":"2014-11-23T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-12-29T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:06:11","slug":"the-boy-who-said-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who Said, “Monk.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Connecticut K-5 school. I’m on a three-day assignment in Special Ed. Several one-on-ones with students who have a schedule of tiered RTI pull-outs from their regular classes. A little pre-schooler I won’t name of course comes every day for a morning hour and an additional afternoon on Fridays. I have him Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They’ve tagged him as nonverbal and on watch for mutism. I was asked to write down any grunt or giggle I might hear if possible. Even if it’s just positive response to something I’ve said or done and you almost hear a snortle or something.<\/p>\n

First two mornings there was nothing, but he was very cheery and happy to comply with each and every change in structured play. Each day in between tasks I sang a capella to him or got my guitar and played him an instrumental flamenco piece. Each morning I read him a cardboard book entitled, “Five Little Monkeys” and he really seemed to like that.<\/p>\n

So Friday morning I made up a song about the 5 little monkeys book before reading it to him and asked if he wanted us to read it together and he looked at me plain as day and said, “monk!” Yes, I nearly jumped out of my own skin.<\/p>\n

I said, “Wait, did you just say “monkeys?” and he didn’t say another word, just grinned and puffed out his chest.
\nThen I read him the book and he smiled the whole time.<\/p>\n

Then I had one more hour in the afternoon and it turned out it was after his class had a music special. He walked in, waved goodbye to his para professional and pointed at the boom box on the floor. So I turned it on and he sat on the floor repeating “wheels on the bus” and “heads shoulders knees and toes” over and over for most of the hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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