From: Karen Rúnarsdóttir,
Subject: A Thank You note from Iceland
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013
>Dear Daniel,
>
>I was so privileged to present two of your seminars and have you visit
>my daughter during your stay in Iceland. Our daughter, Ólöf Halla Ran,
>is two and a half years old. I don´t want to say that she is
>multidisabled because she is so much more , a happy, funny,
>determinant, strong and joyful little girl. So I prefer to say that
>she is challenged with multidisability.
>She is diagnosed with CP, cortical visual impairment, hearing
>impairment ( deaf in one
>ear) and developmental delay. We adopted her from China at the age of
>10 months. After the initial shock of knowing that she was challenged
>with disability and not just understimulation from her stay at the
>orphanage, we were full of hope and sure that this little girl would
>rise up to all her challenges. One of here chinese name when we adopted
>her was RAN and we decided to keep that name when we named her. Ran
>means „to rise up“ and we honestly believed that she would rise up with
>our help. During the last year she has been tested over and over again
>and compared to other children her age. Little by little fear and worry
>started to replace the hope in our hearts. We started worrying about
>her future and the worst part is that we started to lower the bar and
>give her some discount, so to speak. We were unconsciously preparing
>for the worst and that affected our work with her and what we expected
>of her. I didn´t realize it then but I do it now after listening to
>you. I don´t know if you realize the big impact you have made with your
>visit to Iceland and that´s why I want to send you this Thank You note.
>I would have thanked you personally after the second seminar but I was
>afraid of getting too emotional.
>
>
>Daniel, thank you for giving us our hope back and believing the
>anything is possible!
>
>Have I nice journey back ,
>
>Karen Rúnarsdóttir