A little while before his sixth birthday, my brother started going to the Austin State School for the blind. This took about five and a half hours by car to get there. Because it was so far, he had his own bedroom.

This was the first school in the state to have a rubella program.

Altough, he learned different minor things, like eating with a spoon, someone would still have to remind him of what to do.

He went to classes where teachers taught him how to control the muscles in his body by doing different excersizes. After he gained some control of his body, he was taught how to use his hands and fingers. While at this school, he learned about twelve signs with his hands.

Sometimes, he cries when he feels bad.

Because we still can not communicate with him, we do not know where he is hurting.

Sometimes, I cry with him because I can not take away his pain.

When my brother was about thirteen years old, he started limping on one foot. A week later, Jay could not walk and was in a wheel chair. The doctors said that it was the ruebella in his body becoming active again.

The also told us that he could die.

He seemed to forget everything tha the had learned. This school felt that they could do no more for him because he would have to start learning everything over.

The next school that Jay went to was about an hour drive by car. This school would give him more physical therapy.

The people here said that maybe he would learn to walk again. Here, he gets the therapy every day. In the last school, he only got physical therapy two times a week.

He does not get to come home every day like most children do because he needs someone to take special care of him all the time.