She said that in the late afternoon, she did try the different programs which Marilyn had saved in the Freedom processor. Program 1 (P1) is basically what felt comfortable at the end of her activation on Tuesday. P2 and P3 are increasingly louder versions of P1. Marilyn thought that those three would give Nichole enough to work with until her next mapping, which is 9 days after her initial activation. She wasn't even sure Nichole would get to P3, but gave it anyway. Well, Nichole is already comfortable with P2, at volume = 9 (full volume)! She has tried P3, but it is a bit too loud. I reminded her that this isn't a race, and that she shouldn't feel the need to push herself too fast.
As for speech recognition, it didn't seem she was understanding much, if anything, by just observing her during normal conversations. So tonight, at about 11:15pm, after everyone else was asleep, I asked her if she wanted to play the "closed set" game. We pick a category (numbers 1 thru 10, or colors, etc), she faces away from me, and tries to repeat each word I say. I was not too optimistic given it was only day 1, and that I hadn't observed her understanding much earlier in the day. Boy was I in for a wonderful surprise!
I started with the numbers 1 thru 10 in random order. Nichole correctly repeated 8 of the 10 on the first try. For the two she got incorrect, I repeated the number once, and she then got it correct. Yahoo! I moved on to colors. Out of 11, she got eight correct first try, two correct on my first repeat, and one (indigo) she couldn't get. Next was animals. She correctly repeated nine out of 14. She got seven out of 11 sea creatures and five out of six oceans/seas (south china sea, she missed the "china").
So her "first try" success rate was about 80% for most lists, with 65% for the two really hard ones of animals and sea creatures. I have shown her raw results below, so you can get a feel for the difficulty of the words I picked, and so I can keep a record somewhere.
We have her first Listening Therapy session tomorrow afternoon.
Raw Closed-Set Listening Results, I have bolded those items where a mistake was made. Where two percentages are shown, they represent raw score on first try, then with a word repeated if it was wrong the first try. If she had no guess, I put a ????.
Numbers (80%, 100%)
| I said | She repeated |
| 5 | 7, then 5 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 6, then 7 |
| 9 | 9 |
| 6 | 6 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 |
Colors (72%, 91%)
| I said | She repeated |
| Blue | Blue |
| Yellow | Yellow |
| Red | Red |
| Black | White, then black |
| White | White |
| Pink | Pink |
| Orange | White, then orange |
| Green | Green |
| Brown | Brown |
| Indigo | ???? |
| Violet | Violet |
Animals (65%)
| I said | She repeated |
| Cat | Cat |
| Squirrel | Squirrel |
| Bird | Bird |
| Dog | Bird |
| Snake | Snake |
| Fox | Smocks |
| Beaver | ???? |
| Robin | Robin |
| Chickadee | Chickadee |
| Hawk | ???? |
| Bat | Bat |
| Blue Bird | Little Bird |
| Great Blue Heron | Great Blue Heron |
| Owl | Owl |
Sea Creatures (63%)
| I said | She repeated |
| Whale | Whale |
| Dolphin | Dera fin |
| Tuna | ???? |
| Oyster | Oyster |
| Clam | Clam |
| Sea Horse | Sea Horse |
| Skate | Snake |
| Jelly Fish | Jelly Fish |
| Shark | Shark |
| Walrus | Walrus |
| Seal | Snail |
Oceans/Seas (83%)
| I said | She repeated |
| Pacific | Pacific |
| Atlantic | Atlantic |
| Arctic | Arctic |
| Indian | Indian |
| Red Sea | Red Sea |
| South China Sea | South ???? Sea |
Shapes (88%)
| I said | She repeated |
| Circle | Circle |
| Oval | Oval |
| Square | Square |
| Rectangle | Rectangle |
| Star | Star |
| Ellipse | Erect |
| Octagon | Octagon |
| Pentagon | Pentagon |
| Triangle | Triangle |
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