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He Spoke Volumes in His Silence (Lessons from a Special Needs Child)
When I was in my Senior Year of High School I took part in a R.O.P Childcare program where I worked as a Teacher Aide in a Kindergarten Class as well as a classroom of children with special needs, children with severe handicaps. It is here I met a little boy with Cerebral Palsy,will call him A, He couldn’t walk, or talk, his care was twenty four seven, but his eyes spoke volumes, and he had a smile that could light up the darkest of rooms, all I had to do was think about that smile when I was down, and it would lighten up the room, twenty five years later, and the lessons he taught me still stand with me.
This little boy who couldn’t speak, spoke volumes in his own way. The glint in his eyes spoke of compassion, his smile and laughter spoke of joy. If one of his aides walked into the room, myself included, his face would light up. A, was a special needs child, but he taught me patience, as well as to appreciate what I had my abilities, because it was then I would begin to show symptoms of what wouuld later be diagnosed as a neuromuscular disorder and myelopathy, my muscles were slowly deteriorating, by God’s Grace I can still walk, and I still have the pleasure of working with children as a Sunday School Aide, at least twice a month, and I carry with me A, and the lessons he taught me to this day.
