Jack started at nursery when he was three years old. His family worker, Michelle, noted that he spent hours with the train set using trajectory, line and connection schemas.
Michelle outlined Jack's schemas as:
* Trajectories: making linear move- ments in space (vertical, horizontal or oblique)
* Lines: Each line has a starting and end point
* Lines are connected when one entity is joined to another
* Connections between lines form intersections
* Intersections result from co-ordinations of vertical, horizontal and oblique lines.
Jack's line and connection schema manifested itself during his first month in nursery when he:
* Painted vertical or horizontal lines
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