Sign Language

We love Rachel too!

January 18, 2009

Saturday afternoon (frigid weather!) we’re watching Signing Time. Rachel comes on to sing the introduction song. J-man touches the TV screen: “Ahh elll uhvvv yu uuu, Err Aa K-Kul!” (To the uninitiated, that’s “I love you, Rachel!”) No prompting, no saying every syllable behind him, just straight out. Also, when Rachel sings a song, J-man [...]

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Stimming in a Winter Wonderland

December 22, 2008

I can already tell this is going to be a challenging break from school. The J-Man spent much of his day finding various ways to stim. Clearly being away from the structure of school did not sit well with him, even though last week you could tell he was really ready for a break from [...]

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Daddies, Mouses, Social Interaction, and a Dash of Zorro!

November 1, 2008

One of J-Man’s favorite words lately is ‘mouse’ (mow-muh – as in ‘ow’ not a long ‘o’), thanks to the new Best Book in the Universe (TM), The Napping House, which he has completely memorized. We read it before his bath, and he could pretty much recite the whole thing to me at this point [...]

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J-E-L-L-O!

July 10, 2008

Pepaw (Tim’s dad) came over today to play with the J-man… oh, and to help Tim clean out the gutters. By help I mean, Pepaw held the ladder. Thank goodness! For some reason, the J-man picks the days that Pepaw is here to learn a new and exciting skill. Today, it was how to spell [...]

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Whatever Gets You Through

July 7, 2008

Some days, the best you can aim for is to make it to bedtime and hope that nobody pees on the carpet, and even that is negotiable. I’ve been so dead tired lately that even typing this is a real effort. I’ve got all the classic signs of being way over-stressed. And I think I [...]

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And colors too?!

July 2, 2008

And now something that should make upcoming evaluations even more interesting… Apparently, J-Man can identify a handful of colors too. One of our new learning-at-home activities is to do “Point to ____” and give him multiple choices, then repeat that 10 times. We’ve started keeping a notebook and recording how he does. His progress at [...]

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I Want to Play My Computer Game, Please

June 17, 2008

Recently we have been laminating fools over here in the Flashlight household. The J-man has really been into his alphabet flashcards, so we decided to laminate them before he completely shredded them. While we were at it, we (OK, Tim) laminated eleventy-seven pictures of things for the J-man to do. Some were therapy related (the [...]

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My Name is (WHAT?)

June 13, 2008

The J-man has a new and exciting talent – the ability to say a whole phrase. That phrase? “My name is ‘J-man’!” It goes like this: Mama: My J-man: muh-muh J-man: na-na Mama: name J-man: i-i Mama: is J-man: na-na! Mama: ‘J-man’! [We assume you know that neither 'na-na' nor 'J-Man' is his name, and [...]

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