When I arrived at Joey’s house on Friday afternoon he was in a great mood. He was giggling and excited to read, and his personality shone throughout our whole session. We were reading The Gruffalo, which is about a mouse and an imaginary yet real scary monster. As we read about the scary Gruffalo with his terrible teeth in his terrible jaws, I tried to use it as an opportunity to model using body part words like teeth, tongue, knee, leg, back, etc. [Read more…]
Tracking the Purpose Behind Joey’s Communication
“Turkey ready pool love” Joey said as we read Red Hat, Blue Hat by Sandra Boynton. Sure enough, on the next page, the turkey was getting fully dressed to jump into the pool. Joey giggled and held a small stuffed turkey in the air. “Up!” he said, grinning. “Up”.
As Joey’s use of his AAC eye gaze device has increased I have begun including the communication purposes of Joey’s utterances into my data collection. While at first we were just tracking how often Joey used the device within a ten minute period, this summer we realized that it was time to expand our observations. Now, when we take a language sample for ten minutes we track the observable purpose of Joey’s communication. [Read more…]
Reflecting and Questioning
Have you ever heard the expression “As wrong as a vegetarian eating animal crackers?” That was kind of how I felt the other day after a session with Joey.
I couldn’t believe it when I arrived at Joey’s house and found that animal sounds had been added to his device over the weekend. This was perfect because I’d brought the book What’s Your Sound, Hound the Hound? by Mo Willems to read with Joey. In this book a cat goes around and asks all his animal friends what they say. I thought it would be perfect for Joey because he like to make animal noises sometimes. Once I saw that the animal sounds were available to him I was even more excited. This is perfect! I thought. Now he can use the eye gaze and his voice to read the book with me.
Joey did not agree. [Read more…]
Another Great Book for Modeling Core Words on the AAC Device
When I first picked up the book, Look! Written by Jeff Mack I was immediately intrigued. The book has only two words repeated throughout the entire story, and both of them are words on Joey’s device – Look, and Out. [Read more…]
Joey and Mo Willems Books
“Love Silly Reading” Joey shared with me, and then looked in the direction of my book tub stacked behind me. “Silly reading” seems to be his new phrase for asking to read Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems. It is a pretty accurate description. The books are silly, and yet, have the opportunity to offer so much to our sessions. [Read more…]
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