we accidently found somethign to help with this very issue. iit was after when we got hit bye the churchbusn in dec. of 2001...an OT got a little wire bead loom kit far us adn used iit to help reteach us our rite from our left adn asol to improve fine motor skills as result of brain damage from when we got hit - we landed on our head mostly adnswlso left shoulder. well, anyways their was soemthgin about these littel seed beads that finally opened up our world liek nohtign ever had befoer. and we can make designs on varuios graph papers wiht colored pencils to get that pictuer creatign need espressed.r we cwn just nstart sewign beads together and withuot knowign what nits gonna look lierk till we decide its done. no rules. no one to tell u it rite r wrong .but teh beads always behave nteh same. if u sew them tog. a certain way, nthey always set next to each other a certain way. they dont lie adn they r a constant that never changes yet can be made to be different. (btw it took 2 hours adn a hole lot of tears to thread our first beadign needel).
now, 12 yrs, later, beadwork is still our hole world. ppls call us aq artist which is pretty cool. we get to go to pow-wows in teh summertime dn sell uor beadworkk theiir even tho we do not know whqt uor heritage is we r accepted because ppls. their accept us far our beadwork that we do not copy others adn they just like us. we have to set nd work on beadwork while their in order to not freqk out over all of teh ppl their adn we re4ally dotn talk much to anyoen but thats all rite we love lissen to the drums adn concentrate on them.
anyways, mabe ur daughter neede to find teh rite kind of somethign to do liek this where she get to express herself adn her pictuers.
mary
ps - u can go to our profile pg. an see pics of our beadwokr under pics & albusm