with symbols to communicate. was the book great, good, funny, fun, clever? what do you think? it was great, was it? yeah. 0k. the book was ok? anything else you would like to say about it? did you think it was good that that man was using his eyes to talk like you do? fantastic. so the book was ok, fantastic. in sunderland, lucy used her device to tell us what she thought. i feel happy. ifeel happy rob is reading cbeebies bedtime story. lucy s grown up watching the bedtime story and never until now has she seen herself represented in that way. she s been so excited thinking that this was going to happen. ijust think it s incredible.
five, four, three, two, one. action! cbeebies bedtime story. hello. i m rob. i can t use my voice in the way that maybe you can, which is why i use this computer to talk for me. it s called an eye gaze. i use my eyes to gaze or look at the words and it speaks for me. it s like magic. watching at home in sunderland, lucy and her mum jo. lucy has cerebral palsy and also uses a computer to help her communicate. where did you go? in bolton, this is beech class at green fold school. many of the children here have learning difficulties and are non verbal. i used to play rugby as myjob. but something happened that made my world go upside down. it made me feel topsy turvy. but i was brave and didn t give up. from that day on.
it will help notjust lucy, but hopefully other communication device users everywhere. wasn t tilda brave? even though, at times, things felt a little topsy0turvy even though, at times, things felt a little topsy turvy and she wanted to give up, she didn t. she just kept on trying. rob s own perseverance and fortitude in the face of such a cruel illness is extraordinary. his determination to live every moment, to create memories for his family. it was so cool to go to the cbeebies studio and listen to daddy - read tilda tries again. we went in the gallery- and pressed lots of buttons. it was so much fun and we even got to shout action . remember, everything always feels so much better in the morning. night night.