A Day in the Life of Ruby

okay we're about to go in and wake up Ruby. happy Valentine's Day happy Valentine's Day Jesus guess what I mean are you excited Oh bully I'm making her a firt pancake this morning I thought it would be fun to surprise her except it's Valentine's Day we'll see if it turns out what is he doing when I put your hair up okay just video of you I'm gonna follow you around today is that okay yeah like a heart well mornings are pretty uh they go pretty fast so I love her brush her teeth well I brush her hair and put it in a little ponytail and then when she's done when I'm done with this I'll go finish up the brush in right make sure you get those teeth nice and clean excited yeah no any pushy you're going to be ready today yeah that's nice okay forefront a breeze in a wheelchair and Ruby likes to help push her down the halls welcome to a day in the life s bsk original series that follows individuals living with a diagnosis for an entire day to show that every human on this earth has value purpose and is capable of progress we were given the opportunity so without further hesitation get ready for a day in the life hey Ruby are you ready for your question you want me to call you Ruby Ruby it's good to see you again Ruby now your first question is where are we at school do you like it here yeah what's your favorite part of school really cookies I think it helps both of them definitely being able to push Avery is special and then also for Ruby to kind of use the wheelchair as a guide for her kind of works for both of them what's your favorite thing about Avery oh it's super sweet I think we had told Ruby that Avery was going to join our school it was just last May that she came here she moved here with her family and so kind of the lead-up to Avery coming was really exciting for her to have another girl in the classroom the majority are boys in the class so she was really excited and I just think that they just immediate had this immediate connection and just loved each other from the get-go who's your best friend here tell me about Avery she's doing nice to me you have a husband Avery yeah why do you hold Avery's hand I just hold her hand she wakes it Avery what's your favorite thing about Ruby she wants to sit by me BAM hi my name is aimy aanenson and I have the pleasure to be Ruby's speech and language pathologist shine out sing me you make me happy when skies are a strong voice when Ruby came here she had a difficult time answering questions within an average length of time so we wanted to shorten that up so she could have conversation with others so she works a lot on questions and answering right away and also engaging with others when do you need to wear a seatbelt well but what does a phone do and when did you buy easily Ruby has a strong desire to learn and a strong desire to connect with others and I think that's the most important thing they ready for this one short your hair is not short you're correct so what is your hair is your hair it is long can you try saying the L a little better long yes hey ya her language has taken off as far as interacting with others and connecting with others and responding within a reasonable amount of time and so she enjoys that connection and so her language has taken off which is thrilling to see I'll see you later all right let's go bye bud we need you to play the quiet game in speech today did you answer right away yeah I loved it I loved it that's a good deal who do you think our guests speak readers sons oh well you don't know me booth I answered some Christians and speech do you have fun doing it yeah there's no ot so today I'm going to be reading the book have you filled a bucket to day your bucket has one purpose only its purpose is to hold your good thoughts and good feelings about yourself you feel very happy and good when your bucket yes fall I feel so good when she gets on that bus because it's every second up her day is gonna be amazing from the minute she gets on the bus her bus driver is awesome to the person who takes her off the bus is awesome she goes to class and she has an amazing day there the bus driver has pockets too you could invite the new kid at school to play with you that would be a good way to fill somebody's bucket and you feel very sad and lonely when your bucket is empty you I don't want I don't want enough to be about you you wanna pull bucket laughs not get feelings mom you but just knowing that she's surrounded by people who care about her and really want to take care of her needs it it frees me up to be able to do what I need to do during the day and not worry about her at all all day long we are either filling up or dipping into each other's buckets by what we say and by what the words from side to side let's go to the rack believe in who you are Davi do not going spend the other way let's bend the other way I think Ruby can teach the world to be kind I don't think I've ever seen Ruby at she doesn't have a mean bone in her body I think just she kind of leads by example and and kindness just kind of exudes her news article a baby oh you just build her bucket how do you feel then you feel good I know cuz you felt somebody's bucket how about you oh how do you feel about that he's so excited about everything we talked about and she wants to carry over those skills and do it and I think that makes her proud that she's able to do those things independently too and that's what we're trying to teach her is to you know carry over those skills outside of the classroom and to be independent all right Avery do you want to feel Ruby's talking so happy yeah she said you're funny he's not happy every speaker felt me John did your wife in the under hallways yeah yeah what is that that's my boy yes for you mom and dad I love you thank you for caring for me thank you for getting me to school chocolates you're carryin words will fill their buckets right up every a new best friend oh she's quite a ways behind us she's my best friend I know but she's behind it's all kinda gonna slow down and wait for it what is this place this is connect right now so we gather together and our primary focuses that we make connections with our kids so this particular group is my responsibility just to make sure that their experience your it's love and everything that they wanted to be so what are we gonna do take you on a culinary plan to come up sing our song choose singers on after we finish eating our treats we have a few rules with Ruby so the first one is always eat with a napkin the next one is to never talk to her when she's eating or drinking oh yeah we have a lot of words you can't say Ruby is such an amazing student she's such an inspiration to all of us and I'm sure you can tell that just by the attraction of kids to her when she comes in she lights up the room with her excitement she loves to be included in everything that we do one two three I'm an aunt Ivan is I have a cat I'm a cow Moo Moo I'm a dog I'm a dog he's your Indian result I always say that I'm probably learning more from Ruby than she is for me if so I would assume that would be the same with the student helpers one it just maybe changes their perspective of life and maybe makes them thankful for you know what they have Ruby is a student in the class she sings with the soprano section and she has two seventh-grade friends that sit with her and help her with what's going on they help her when she comes to the concerts especially for walking in on the risers and help her to walk to that spot and the same in the classroom Ruby sings um and she loves music she gets very excited about it and she participates very well she does a lot of listening and picks up the words and lyrics that way I think Ruby really teaches people that it's okay to be different you don't have to be perfect in whatever society deems is perfection to be loved one of Ruby's friends told me that they loved having Ruby around because when she's around there was no drama and in thirteen-year-old girls there is plenty of drama but Ruby can't participate in that drama and so having her there kind of helps cancel that out for them Ruby who are you standing beside what's your favorite thing about her wow it's too loud when it's not too loud what's your favorite pair that's aw they have really come together around Ruby really ad they have their own little name that they made up with a combination of all their names and it starts with Ruby um and they just love her so much they lunch together every day they hang out on the weekends and before you know it Avery was going to lunch with Ruby and the girls embraced Avery and now they all eat lunch together last summer her friends were sad they were worried that they might not get to have lunch with Ruby and so they each wrote a letter to the principal and asked him if they could be in the same homeroom which meant that they would be in the same lunch and the principal honored their request and so those four girls are all in the same homeroom and lunch together this year they even have like a chain a text chain that they have which I am on and is like her proxy you know but she her iPad some days I'll go in and she'll be hanging out on her iPad and she'll have like 15 messages on her iPad so we'll sit down and not lead them to her and let her know that our friends were taxiing heard what do they write they'll talk about what they don't think they want to do just general chat your mouse over here took weight and right here just like you wanted and they're really a good group of girls they're sweet and they understand Ruby they understand her limitations but also encourage her like I do to be as much as she can be they're just kids what do you and your friends talk about at lunch Debbie think cutie Ruby she could say wall she's a cutie Ruby so Ruby is in an adaptive fayed class and there are also gen ed peers along with her in that class that help out I've been having happen started turning turning every you did to people they play softball they play kickball they do all the all the same skills that are done in a regular Fayed class just with a little bit more support it's really hard for me to know exactly what she can see because she doesn't really know how to describe things for me in a way that I would understand but what I've noticed is that she can see light she can see like shadows vision does vary a day to day so like she's having a really good day it seems like her vision is better if she's kind of having the tired day it's almost like she runs into things more often she just can't describe what she can see and what she can't enough to do like a vision test of any real accuracy he loves everybody for who they are and I think having a friend like that gives people just such a sense of hope and belonging that they might not have in their other friendships I'm not personal what's the biggest thing you hope Ruby gets out of her education gosh I think I want her to learn functional skills that she can use going forward in her life and I also want her to have a lot of fun I think learning should be interesting and really exciting and I think that's what is happening here movie you ready to go home she talks to sell all the time even when they're not in the same room sometimes when they're not in the same location it's tough when Ruby gets home from the school all she wants to do is just chill out on the couch and use Stella as a pillow luckily Stella's usually pretty patient but she's getting older and sometimes she moves doesn't she what do you think Stella was thinking about what's it like to see the lessons she learns that school resonate at home you say that I love to see the thing she's learning at school it just means that it's really sinking in Riley and Ruby have been friends since they were in third grade so it's been about four year four to five years now where are you sitting with Lenny Riley tell me a little bit about Ruby oh she's probably the nicest person that you'll ever meet and she has the kindest heart ever and she'd never do anything or say anything mean to anyone so sometimes after school Riley comes over and hangs out with Ruby and they will bake together they'll do work boxes together sometimes Ruby even goes over the air after school why did you decide to be friends with Riley I made cookies but now why we're friends cause we make cookies yeah yeah and how more happy okay oh he's feeling me don't you're with her just no matter how bad your day is going or how bad something might seem she can just like brighten your day whenever you're with him he's gonna see me how to do it she's taught me that you need to accept everyone for who they are and everyone's different and unique in their own way and that everyone just like deserves a chance and everyone kind of wants to just be friends with everybody else and you should let them be so at the end of the night when Ruby's ready to just relax and unwind she gets free time it's Ruby time and so I set her up with her iPads send her off to her bedroom and like any 13 year old she is content in there relaxing and watching it for hours oh are you tired yeah okay we get it all did we get him off yeah do they feel clean yeah all right what is Stella she's probably nan the coach well she's taking it to Estella should we say it when we get in bed yeah yeah I'm good should we go get in bed I do feel like repeat was put on this earth to send a message of hope to people and to show people that love really does conquer all you know Ruby is pure love and acceptance and she gets that in return from everyone she interacts with and so I just hope that when people see that her life is pretty typical they they know that she's all good like her life isn't worse than anybody else's it's it's a pretty amazing life that she has you have a best friend easily okay okay here's the bucket you're gonna have to find what's hidden in there get those hands way up there we go okay you say good night you know did Stella came off she thinks that Stella says goodnight to her every night but really it's one of me either my boyfriend or I making a Wolf's advocate oh yeah good

Channel: Special Books by Special Kids

Views: 7,873,648

Rating: 4.9289718 out of 5

Keywords: Ruby, Angie and Ruby, Stromme Syndrome, SBSK, Special Books by Special Kids, A Day in the Life, Special Education, Inclusion, Education, Teach, Chris Ulmer

Id: SkcakBySs18

Length: 30min 15sec (1815 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 18 2018