Technology

Assistive Technology – Tell us what you know

June 12, 2008

Given J-Man’s sudden proliferation of letter recognition and continued progress with picture communication, it looks like he may be a prime candidate for some sort of assistive technology device to help him communicate. While I’m a self-professed geek, I don’t know the first thing about what the technological possibilities are for him. I know a [...]

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A is for…

June 6, 2008

Awesome Baby! Pepaw (my dad) gets the award for helping J-Man make one of his best achievements this week. He got him some flash cards at the dollar store. One of the packs was for ABCs, with one letter and a picture under it per card. He put A-F out on the coffee table and [...]

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Structured Learning at Home and Reward Pellets

June 1, 2008

As we develop this hybrid of therapy work for us to do at home in between J-Man’s work with his therapists and his time at school, we have been drawing a big blank on one critically important piece of the puzzle. I call it ‘reward pellets’. The concept comes basically from how they train animals. [...]

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He can type?!?

May 26, 2008

OK, I’ve heard a lot recently about non or barely verbal autistic children being able to type and communicate like gangbusters. Typically this is for older children, though. When you start seeing your own speech-struggling, not-terribly-receptive-to-word-games toddler identifying letters on a computer keyboard, that’ll freak you out, in a good way of course. J-Man LOVES [...]

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