Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 Sheldon has gotten to a point where I think he has thoughts that he wants to communicate with us but has no way to do that. He signs a lot right now but he just doesn't have enough signs to talk about a lot of things. He tends to learn new signs and lose other ones every few weeks and it's sometimes hard for him to come up with the correct sign. Our speech therapist has tried PECs with him and he will sometimes use pictures during his sessions but won't use the pictures that are velcroed right on the front of our fridge to ask for juice or snacks. Actually, he doesn't use the pictures at all right now, only signs. However, he never signs 'eat' or 'drink', just stuff he's interested in like 'helicopter', 'car', 'horse' and 'home'. He can't say any words at all, the only thing he can do is make a 'k' sound for car or truck. I guess my question is what modes of communication have parents of nonverbal kids found successful? Of course, any ideas for encouraging speech would be great too. He's never before seemed interested in communicating with us and I really want to help him now that he is so any ideas about communication would be great. -- ---------- Stacey Fleming flemings@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 my son Colby signs mostly but does have a dynamte, check out the web site. he lets you know what he wants, but i'm also his mother. check into the dynamyte, make a wish paid for ours, I think medicaid pays, some insurances, they are over 6,000 dollars. good luck! mom to Colby,13,COXIV,LCHAD,ACC,ADHD ,hypothroidism and osteopenia. Chad, 16, healthy, Caleb, 10, also healthy> >Reply-To: Mito >To: Mito >Subject: Communication >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:50:32 -0500 > >Sheldon has gotten to a point where I think he has thoughts that he >wants to communicate with us but has no way to do that. He signs a >lot right now but he just doesn't have enough signs to talk about a >lot of things. He tends to learn new signs and lose other ones every >few weeks and it's sometimes hard for him to come up with the correct >sign. Our speech therapist has tried PECs with him and he will >sometimes use pictures during his sessions but won't use the pictures >that are velcroed right on the front of our fridge to ask for juice >or snacks. Actually, he doesn't use the pictures at all right now, >only signs. However, he never signs 'eat' or 'drink', just stuff he's >interested in like 'helicopter', 'car', 'horse' and 'home'. He can't >say any words at all, the only thing he can do is make a 'k' sound >for car or truck. > >I guess my question is what modes of communication have parents of >nonverbal kids found successful? Of course, any ideas for encouraging >speech would be great too. He's never before seemed interested in >communicating with us and I really want to help him now that he is so >any ideas about communication would be great. > >-- >---------- >Stacey Fleming >flemings@... > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 my son Colby signs mostly but does have a dynamte, check out the web site. he lets you know what he wants, but i'm also his mother. check into the dynamyte, make a wish paid for ours, I think medicaid pays, some insurances, they are over 6,000 dollars. good luck! mom to Colby,13,COXIV,LCHAD,ACC,ADHD ,hypothroidism and osteopenia. Chad, 16, healthy, Caleb, 10, also healthy> >Reply-To: Mito >To: Mito >Subject: Communication >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:50:32 -0500 > >Sheldon has gotten to a point where I think he has thoughts that he >wants to communicate with us but has no way to do that. He signs a >lot right now but he just doesn't have enough signs to talk about a >lot of things. He tends to learn new signs and lose other ones every >few weeks and it's sometimes hard for him to come up with the correct >sign. Our speech therapist has tried PECs with him and he will >sometimes use pictures during his sessions but won't use the pictures >that are velcroed right on the front of our fridge to ask for juice >or snacks. Actually, he doesn't use the pictures at all right now, >only signs. However, he never signs 'eat' or 'drink', just stuff he's >interested in like 'helicopter', 'car', 'horse' and 'home'. He can't >say any words at all, the only thing he can do is make a 'k' sound >for car or truck. > >I guess my question is what modes of communication have parents of >nonverbal kids found successful? Of course, any ideas for encouraging >speech would be great too. He's never before seemed interested in >communicating with us and I really want to help him now that he is so >any ideas about communication would be great. > >-- >---------- >Stacey Fleming >flemings@... > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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