Tag: PECS
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Celebrating 2 Years of Telehealth Speech Therapy Being More Successful Than The In Person Sessions 🙂
Tony has always, always hated speech therapy. For many years this was his least favorite therapy type, as every speech therapist who has ever worked with him can attest. Our little man understands a great deal more than most people realize (in both English and Spanish), but he still usually doesn’t want to communicate unless…
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Give It Some Time
This is a picture of Tony’s current AAC device that was taken right after he requested to watch one of his favorite Tinker Bell movies early Thursday afternoon. And as a picture, it communicates even less than our little man did in the asking. You don’t know how long it took him to make these…
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Let’s Talk About Speech, Part 2
As we stroll through this second week of discussion about speech therapy for Tony, I want you to keep something very important in mind: Ms. B deserves just as much loving picture wise as every other therapist who works with Tony. This post however, is going to be lighter in pics than some of the…
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Let’s Talk About Speech, Part 1
I have discovered that when people with typically verbal family members think about speech therapy, most assume that it exclusively involves the process of teaching appropriate verbal speech. This certainly can be the case, but when an individual isn’t capable of producing vocal sounds or putting them together in ways recognizable to others, the approach…
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The Learning Game
From where we left off on last week’s post, you can see that Tony has what are called “highly splintered skills.” This means that he’s doing much better in some areas than others. Currently, the gross motor skills we talked about last week are not the highest functioning domain for our little man. Tony’s highest…