{"id":3860,"date":"2016-03-22T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-06T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:25:20","slug":"autistic_boy_focuses_on_rush_revere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/22\/autistic_boy_focuses_on_rush_revere\/","title":{"rendered":"Autistic Boy Focuses on Rush Revere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Isaac in Arizona City, Arizona. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thanks for taking my call, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: I called because I live here in Arizona and I went and voted this morning like everybody\u2019s talking about. But I just wanted to call and thank you because my wife and I are raising our kids. They\u2019re all Rush Babies.<\/a> She was. Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t listen to you until I turned 19 and I was still on active duty in the Marines. So when I heard that you were writing children\u2019s books based on history, I was ecstatic. Because unfortunately, when I was little, I got basically the same history they\u2019re getting now. But I knew stuff was missing, so I looked for it on my own. Well, then your books came out and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to read them to my kids. They enjoy them very much. Well, now they read them on their own. One of my kids, the middle one, he actually has special needs. He\u2019s a moderate-functioning autistic. So it\u2019s hard to get him to focus.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How old is he?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He is seven.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Seven. Wow. Okay.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Yeah, so it\u2019s very hard to get him to focus, and he also has a Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder. So sometimes it\u2019s very difficult for him to understand. But when I pick up a Rush Revere book<\/a> or his brothers do, and they read it, it\u2019s got his attention, and that to me is amazing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Anything to keep his attention. And he\u2019s very, very hands on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you think it is about those books? ‘Cause I know behavioral patterns, and I know the challenges and all that, and there are varying degrees of this. What is it about the books, do you think, that focuses attention?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The thing that he catches on to most is Liberty. Obviously most kids like Liberty. It\u2019s his quips, it\u2019s his quick wit, and he just seems to anticipate the next joke or the next funny comment that Liberty will make. He gets a kick out of it that a horse is saying these things, that a horse is doing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, \u2019cause he\u2019s a literalist, right, and horses don\u2019t talk.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And yet here\u2019s a believable horse. So he keeps reading for the next instance of Liberty being a smart aleck?<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But he also retains the points that you make in between. Like I told the gentleman that took the call, my youngest is seven, and he very well quickly made the correlation between some of the things that, say, the king of England was doing and things he said to Elizabeth and his attitude. He quickly made that connection to, “Obama does that! We don\u2019t have a king.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, that was the exact idea. That was the objective, and at seven years old, he figured this out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. He did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You must be raising some really smart, aware kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My wife and I, we\u2019re trying to. They do say some things out in public like, “Oh, I like Ted Cruz,” as my wife and I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are college students who wouldn\u2019t make that connection today, and your seven-year-old reads that and says, “Wow, Dad. This reminds me of Obama.” That\u2019s exactly our goal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. His oldest brother a couple years ago, his teacher, won an essay contest you had going on. So she actually won a big bunch — 60 or so — of books for her school.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on. I\u2019ve gotta take a break here, Isaac. Hang on through the break. It won\u2019t be along. I need to ask you a couple of questions when we get back. This is amazing, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we are back. We rejoin Isaac in Arizona City, Arizona, who\u2019s describing an autistic son, one of his children, who magically is able to focus attention when he\u2019s reading any of the Rush Revere Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans <\/a>history books. Tell me again how old your autistic son is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s seven.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s seven. And your daughter that you just described? I thought I heard you say she\u2019s seven as well. They twins?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I have three boys. Two of them are seven. They\u2019re not twins. They\u2019re very close in age. The youngest actually just turned seven, and he is about to turn eight —<\/p>\n

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\nRUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — at the beginning of April.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Look, the reason I wanted you to hang on here is because I needed to ask, I would like to send you and the family one of these new iPad Pros, the 13-inch with an Apple pencil. I don\u2019t know if your autistic son, does he draw, is he into art, and artistic things?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, if you put him down with something to draw or write or give him a puzzle<\/p>\n

he\u2019ll be occupied for a while.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something, this iPad Pro and the iPad pencil he can draw to his heart\u2019s content in any number of apps that are on it. The Notes app has a great sketch section on it. It\u2019s a stock app that comes with it and it\u2019s amazing. It is exactly like drawing on paper. It\u2019ll blow him away. I mean, I really want to do this because it would be helpful, but it\u2019s also some gratitude here, because this is an exceptional story, what you\u2019ve told me here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you very, very much. I\u2019m very appreciative. A second ago he ran inside from the backyard and said, “Are you talking to Rush Revere?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing).<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I told him, “No, I\u2019m talking to one of his friends.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me put you back with Mr. Snerdley, Isaac, and he\u2019ll get your address, and we will ship it out. We\u2019ll put some other stuff in there too. Gonna be two things. We\u2019ll put together a package of stuff that we send also from the actual Rush Revere library. The iPad Pro will come separately. It will come in two different packages, the iPad Pro and the pencil and the keyboard will come together. He\u2019ll eat it up. He\u2019ll absolutely love this. You talk about focusing attention, \u2019cause I imagine he\u2019s gonna just love the tech as much as what he can do with it. So I really appreciate it, Isaac. Thank you more than you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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