Sawyer has grown leaps and bounds over the past few months with his communication. One day we were getting ready to leave the house and he was anxious to leave. I decided he needed to learn to wait so I just ignored him. He finally settled for a minute to communicate what he wanted. In the top portion is what he said. "I'm telling you something", "places", "in the car", "store". I was so proud of him for using his words. He knew what he wanted and he was able to communicate it.
The other day he said "put on covers" and me and Carli couldn't figure out what he was saying until we looked at his progress report that said he mastered putting the blanket on the doll. It took us a few minutes to figure out how he even got to "put on covers". He said "more to say", "I'm telling you something", "activities", "doll", "bed", "put on covers". We have never modeled this before. He figured out on his own how to tell us he learned how to put the blanket on the doll.
One last thing. Ben was home and had been playing with Sawyer. Sawyer used his talker to say "envelope", and "stamp". After Ben realized he had an envelope with a stamp on it in his pocket. He is generalizing so much with his communication and finding things on his own that we have never modeled.
It is so exciting to see him progress! I never imagined we would be where we are at today 2 years ago.
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