I got a note home from Gabe's school ST. She said he is struggling with answering "where" questions and questions pertaining to a story that was just read. Gabe does struggle with this A LOT!!! So I got a brilliant idea. I programmed Gabe's AAC device to have different aspects to a story that I was planning on reading at bedtime. I read the story and he answered every single question with his talker!! Wow....it's amazing how well he did when he had picture prompts in front of him. He even made complete sentences using his talker..."The cat drank the milk", "He went under the ocean" Gabe doesn't talk in complete sentences....so it was great to see him make them on his talker. I did have to do some prompting to get him to use the, he, etc. It's a start. We are going to read the same book tonight...this time I am not going to do as much prompting.
I also talked to the AT team at AI duPont. The speech therapist there is going to do a complete AAC evaluation with Gabe to address his word retrieval and pragmatic language issues. I hope we can get in soon. I am so excited. I should hear from them on Thursday or Friday. YAY!! We have been using P2G with great success...it's time to think about a device that can do more. Don't get me wrong...We LOVE proloquo2go. It's a wonderful aac device...and very portable. It's worth every penny. But I would like to get some solid answers from an AAC evaluator with an SLP/CCC degree. I can't wait to go to duPont.
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