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

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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