Harper and Mom playing with music and using PODD to talk all about it! Music is such an engaging activity! I love how it gives us so much opportunity to model both topic specific words like music and instruments but also lots of high frequency words such as Me, You and Play! In this video you will see me doing a ton of long awkward pauses. I, very intentionally, am trying to show Harper that I am open and wanting to hear her voice and I’m trying to give Harper plenty of time to process and let h

Mr L using his PODD book to communicate

Keira’s new PODD book with her PECS. Thought I’d do a little video showing you what we use while out and about and even when we are at home for Keira’s communication. This book has all of Keira’s words she can communicate with. Keira can’t point to pictures at the moment, so she grabs the picture she wants and hands it to me. That’s her way of saying “I want milk” or “I want dad”. We are only using single words at the moment. Hopefully she will grasp the concept of using two PECS for example “Da

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