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Angelman Syndrome, AAC and everything in between

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Tiny milestones

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Jessie has many nicknames, one is destructress. You can see the path where she has been.

Last night a package of tin foil popped out of the kitchen cabinet on to the floor. I was working on the computer so didn’t get up. Later Jess walked by, stopped and then proceeded to put this item where it belonged! Is this my daughter?

Just now, when I had finished a chore, she then told me via SFY “good job”. I do appreciate her comment. I appreciate seeing that her awareness level is emerging!

Oh my, now she just complimented herself by saying that she did an amazing job feeding the dog!  This looks to be a good night for conversation.

Going rogue; how we found SFY

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Beginning …..January 2011

The end of May, we decided not to replace the Dynavox. It was temperamental and their updated version was more difficult to program. To top it off, we could not afford to support it when Jess aged out of school. We could not afford to buy a $9,000 device every four years either. Because the Dynavox wasn’t user-friendly, Jess realized it was easier for her to use gestures. For us, the underlining problem with the Dynavox was when Jess had more to say, she had to navigate through too many layers, it got complicated.  She lost interest.

The Dynavox. This was taken when she first got the device. Notice hand over hand, this is so wrong

Back in January, Jess had been evaluated for other AAC devices. They said no to PQ2G and  I don’t recall what they suggested, but they definitely did not recommend using an iPad due to her poor fine motor skills,  and her distractibility.  Even so, the only thing I had seen at this point was Proloquo2go.  Something about it seemed not appropriate for Jess who was now 20. [Read more…] about Going rogue; how we found SFY