Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Big Boy

Nate recently turned 5.  He has been excited about it for a couple of months.  Now that he's 5, everything that he does, according to him, is because he is 5.


A few weeks ago we had Nate evaluated for an AAC device (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) device.  He qualified and we have started using a device called the Go Talk.


He's using it to work on grammar.  He communicates his wants and needs perfectly well, but we're working on articles and sentence structure.  We've only been using it for a couple of weeks, but we're hoping that he can work towards using the device to feel more comfortable participating in class activities that require responses.  Maybe he'll even use it for sharing time some day!