One of my favorite new children’s books is Not a Box. Throughout the book, a voice (one assumes it is an adult) asks a rabbit “Why are you in that box?” next to a picture of the rabbit on, in, next to, etc a box. When you turn the page the rabbit replies, “It’s not a box.” This time the picture shows the rabbit imagining the box is a race car, a mountain, an elephant, etc.
It sums up my own childhood perfectly – no cardboard box was ever just a box. It was whatever my imagination could make it become. [Read more…]
Sometimes when I am working with Joey it is easy to forget that there are other aspects of communicating with an AAC device that we don’t naturally think about. The device gives Joey access to words, which makes it easy to focus on the words themselves. After all, words are how we communicate.
Last week 
Joey loves numbers. He gives me big smiles when he sees that we are going to work with numbers, and loves to tell silly number jokes where he gives me the wrong number when we are putting our numbers in order. After giving me the wrong number he will crack up, and give me that large Joey grin that says “I think 1, 2, 6” is the funniest thing ever.
ce was returned a few weeks ago, 
