She mostly has trouble with small things; she can hold thick crayons or markers but not regular ones, for example, though she's not very good with them in any case. The notes here also explain why she's on the finger food diet: she can't use utensils well enough to avoid making a mess, even if they're thickened so that she can hold them.

Heria pulls up where she can feed this into her datahook to get appropriate further product recommendations and the like. She doesn't suppose they tried any kinds of typing or other such things?

(And, how is Denice doing meanwhile?)

(Still watching TV, or possibly staring off into space in its general direction.)

They don't seem to have tried to get her to type at all; some of the exercises when they were trying to get her to be able to use writing implements involved tracing letters in their alphabet, but that wasn't a focus, most of them used shapes or simple drawings. When they tried to teach her to read, they didn't get that far; they started by trying to get her to identify letters by pointing, and according to their notes she wasn't able to do it reliably, even after several months of trying.

...not that it would not be more than understandable and legitimate to hide things from or deceive 'them' without any further reason, but do the records have anything that would be a more specific reason to hide reading abilities? Would showing them have been dangerous or led to negative consequences in some way?

Nothing obvious. Possibly there'd be something in one of the other kids' records.

She'll look at general records first - policies, scheduling...

They do demand more academic work of children who are more able to do it.

She's assuming even worse meanings to 'demand' than the general ones. Should she be reading the same into 'academic work'?

Not especially, actually. There are laws about what benchmarks children are expected to meet, when they can; they don't seem to care about surpassing that standard.

Alright. And, she thinks she knows enough that there's not current call to be looking at should-be-warded records of people who aren't here in front of her.

It looks like she might be wary of reading if she knows they'll see her doing it (with good reason...). Which would be easier to arrange something for if they could find books in her language...

But, as the meanwhile is -

She consults silently with Shen again. (Denice has seemed to be doing well enough, acutely, and time without watchers in the room is an important thing, and knowing she may leave it is also.)

"We're going to go do some things out of this room for a little. You're welcome to stay here, or to also look around the house, if you want. If you need us again, that button on the remote will call us back." (House is already warded - for children, but there's no reason it should be dangerous to Denice.)

Does she respond in any way?

She looks up, a second after Heria starts talking, and nods slightly and goes back to watching the TV when she's done.

They leave.

She stays on the couch for a while - about fifteen minutes - in case this is a test, and then she gets up to check out the room's exits.

The room has one of those! It leads out into an entrance-hall type thing. 

...yeah, no, she's not going out there.

Anything else interesting in the room?

Aside from the couch, chairs, and wallscreen, there's bookshelves with spines in languages she won't recognize, drawers she won't be able to open, decorations on the walls and some of the shelves. One corner has various children's toys and games.  

She doesn't try to open the drawers, or touch the books. She does take a closer look at the toys.

There's a variety. Dolls of various sorts, some costumes, little tool and craft kits, some table games and some floor games, construction sets, what she may or may not recognize as little spaceships and little flying-transport looking things. 

Nothing very interesting, and anyway she'll probably be introduced to them soon enough. (...probably. These adults are very strange.)

Does this room have any windows?

It does. Large windows, with curtains that are currently open.

And what's outside?

More houses. Apartment building-looking, if she know what that looks like. A street in between. No cars anywhere to be seen. 

...that's new. That's very new. And a little alarming. She stays there, watching.

If she keeps watching, she might see people! Three adults and a kid go into one of the buildings together. A teenage-looking person comes out of one of the other ones. They have an unfamiliar-to-her square thing slung over their back. They take it off, step onto it, and fly away on it.