Thursday, April 16, 2020

Feeling our Emotions AND practicing conversation

One of the goals Dominic has been working on for a long time in speech therapy is being able to describe what he is feeling.  They've worked on this a number of ways, and every time for the duration, Dominic's selected the Happy face emotion. Yesterday, he actually picked the mad one.  I don't know why he was mad (I can guess - he and Tyler are having some moments getting used to each other and its difficult for two only kids to suddenly have to cope with sharing all. the.  time), I just know that he expressed it.  And thats a first.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Mal0Icv8pF8v8oPFxRuiUaETUSBX3VAY

Secondly, he's been really wanting to talk on video chat.  So on Monday, during speech we called and practiced with a friend to give Savannah an idea of what to create in support of this.  Yesterday, she brought this script and we practiced two ways, with me on the other end of the call and her supporting and vice versa.   The idea is to practice these calls (and we're using the Facebook Messenger KIDS app because i want to be able to control and monitor going forward) and this script, then expand the script and start giving him options of questions to ask, and we'll give him options of things to answer with as people interact with him.  (The hand graphic is there to remind him To pause) Its really choppy and slow going and he needs a ton of support.  So that all said, if any of ya'll are interested in being a person with whom Dominic practices, let me know and I'll add you to his facebook messenger list.  I will attempt to text and ensure its an okay time for him to call but my long term desire is for him to be able to just call someone on his ipad.  If that happens, can ya'll let me know? Also fair warning he will likely randomly message you food emoticons. 

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1QksPG708u0YJvgAvrkBtB4br6umuQhJQhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=18IytWkfKYr4qypSm6FlKA0hzH1QFdKxd

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