tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556158049094274124.post1928814229477555977..comments2022-11-16T09:51:16.254-05:00Comments on Queen Bee of 3: Signs of intelligent life : )Queenbuv3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10767805292831696201noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556158049094274124.post-1493702733948452812009-05-07T14:11:00.000-04:002009-05-07T14:11:00.000-04:00I also make him say yes or no or the thing he want...I also make him say yes or no or the thing he wants when we are having these "conversations". Verbal communication is soooo difficult for him. He didn't speak a word until he was 5 and it is still amazing and wonderful everytime he says or sings anything! I always repeat back to him what he says to me, talk about what he is doing to give him the words or acknowledge that I understand what he is trying to communicate. He is so happy when he has communicating something to anybody. As my mother always says he is going to blow everybody away some day. But he already blows my mind everytime he does something to show me he is thinking and feeling and really in there : ) I wish more parents took the time to enjoy and get to know their children as a person with Autism not as an Autistic. They spend so much time and energy trying to make them "normal". They are really missing out : (Queenbuv3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10767805292831696201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556158049094274124.post-71111412250473326152009-05-07T11:11:00.000-04:002009-05-07T11:11:00.000-04:00Great job Stephen! He is taking some giants steps...Great job Stephen! He is taking some giants steps forward in communicating! Wooo hooo!!!<br /><br />Personally, I required the kids need to say 'cheerios' after they did that 'when I get to the right answer run away' thing a few times. After learning to acknowledge it with a yes for a while, I'd have them say 'want cheerios' or whatever it was. then kept adding on words to eventually make a sentence "I want cheerios please".<br /><br />The reason I had them do this was sometimes the processing time was way behind where I was in the list, so maybe cheerios was the thing they wanted but I had said 3 things after cheerios by the time they processed the word 'cheerios'. That ended up in lots of frustration. They soon learned that if they said "cherrios" they GOT what they wanted (well, maybe not soon, but eventually) and once it clicked they started using words more often.Wendi Sotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02688303013644842892noreply@blogger.com