In August I had a brilliant idea. I would gather some families and do a “Science Day”, during which time all the kids would participate in fun science experiments/demonstrations and learn about science. You know……
Almost everyone is officially now “back to school”… how are you feeling about that? Excited? Exhausted? Somewhere in between? I know there have been a million “back to school” posts over the years, so I…
Since we live out of state from almost all of our relatives (and many friends), I had to brainstorm ways for my young children to learn the relatives names and know who they were. I…
Ms. T walked into the class to observe and was a little shocked. She saw the speech pathologist singing and signing the alphabet to a group of students. The students were not singing back and…
I have a confession to make. In the 17+ years that I have been a speech therapist, I have never been completely satisfied with my data collection. I consistently take data, and some say take…
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ASL.
Let’s see… ASL PECS MiniMO by Dynavox and the great game of “guess what I’m trying to tell you!”
Email.
My blog ๐ Does that count?
My blog – I side with Kelsey on this one.
Yes. Yes. Yes. A blog is a form of augmentative and alternative communication.
Some people who are usually non-verbal use it as one of their primary means of communication.
Does giving somebody the finger while driving count? ‘Cause I do that one a lot.
Well my 2 1/2 year old points, pulls and pushes to get her point across. We pretty much know what she wants just from that. We then follow up with words so she knows what she asking for.
Batting your eyelashes! *grin* Although I’ve found this works much better for my 5 year old daughter than it does for me >.>
a young boy in our church used a small computer to talk for him.
picture drawing (especially to help young children communicate feelings or experiences)
puppets color coding letters or journaling gosh, there are so many
ASL.
Let’s see…
ASL
PECS
MiniMO by Dynavox
and the great game of “guess what I’m trying to tell you!”
Email.
My blog ๐ Does that count?
My blog – I side with Kelsey on this one.
Yes. Yes. Yes. A blog is a form of augmentative and alternative communication.
Some people who are usually non-verbal use it as one of their primary means of communication.
Does giving somebody the finger while driving count? ‘Cause I do that one a lot.
Well my 2 1/2 year old points, pulls and pushes to get her point across. We pretty much know what she wants just from that. We then follow up with words so she knows what she asking for.
Batting your eyelashes! *grin* Although I’ve found this works much better for my 5 year old daughter than it does for me >.>
a young boy in our church used a small computer to talk for him.
picture drawing (especially to help young children communicate feelings or experiences)
puppets
color coding
letters or journaling
gosh, there are so many