Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Today's Surprise

In the midst of a team meeting today we had a lovely reminder of how important it is to acknowledge the communicative attempts of our Members.

We were all busy writing about how important it is to have a positive outlook in life.  We talked about how some people find it difficult to look for the positive in life, and how perhaps sometimes we are all one of those people.

We came up with quite a list of our abilities:
  • Basketball
  • Playing piano
  • Doing the haka
  • Bowling
  • Making people happy
  • Helping
  • Spelling
  • Reading
  • Advocacy
  • All kinds of sport
  • Typing
We were just talking, when one of our lovely ladies, stood up and determined that she had something to say. 

What a joy to share that moment.

It doesn't matter if someone communicates verbally, uses signing, keys on a qwerty board or relies on gesture, whatever the mode or method, their message is important and should be heard.

It's an honour to be part of moments like today when someone realises that their "voice" is valued.  Thank you TTP Wednesday crowd for reminding us of your abilities and sharing your lives with us.





2 comments:

  1. It has been lovely reading this blog and hearing the 'voice' of the members as they share their thoughts with us.

    Thank you TTP for helping us 'hear'.

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