Topic board.... LEGOS

Who doesn't love legos, our house has an amazing amount of legos. I put some in a small box on the therapy shelf so I can use them with William. Here are a few pecs I made to go with them, and a few RBW cards too.

Speak for yourself AAC app Icons

Since I am am starting high tech AAC with William, I started making icons to use with whatever app works with him.  That way the communication app matches his pecs at home!  We are currently using Speak For Yourself. Which has words that never move so the children can develop motor planning for each word.  This is why this was my first choice.  I made icons for every word on the front page!   I posted them on a dropbox account so that others can use them too, for speak for yourself or any aac app that lets you choose your own photos. I think the continuity is so important!

There are 96 by 96 size icons for SFY, there are larger size plain color icons. and there are larger size icons colored according to the fitzgerald key.

For those of you who are using paper pecs, these are all individual boardmaker pec icons!
Here is a screenshot of Williams front page! Of course he only has 7 of these words open....

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y7w1fxd2iwctkqu/AAAyM_FIARTrGG9Uy4bcywUFa?dl=0

I love my daddy adapted book.

I found this awesome book at savers, "I love my daddy" and my daughter loved it. So I made some pecs to adapt it.

Ouch board!

In addition to my "somethings wrong" I made an ouch board.

Somethings wrong......

Any special needs parent knows that nothing is worse than your baby hurting and you have no idea why. I made several different things to try to get around this issue. Here is the first one, I printed it twice and used the second to cut out the PECS.

More RBW cards!! Dolch words first grade level

I love these Read... Build... Write... printables from home school creations.  I laminated them and have  made some custom cards for my kids to use with them. I made ones with some of Lily's favorite words like elephant and barnacle (thank you spongebob).  Anyhow I thought I would share some of the sets I made to use with them.

Here are some first grade dolch words.

Exploring William

OK, as may be obvious by my quiet, I have been spending a ton of time researching the past few days. Determined as I am to make my boys feel capable and loved and accepted, I am always fearful that I am making mistakes.  William has started ABA, he is in pretreatment, basically she has been seeing what he is capable of.  Its early yet, but I have a feeling in my gut that it isn't right for him. I don't know. I am waiting before I make any drastic decisions, but don't want to do nothing either.  So I decided the first thing I need to do is really get to know him. No one knows him better than me, but I really think I should break it down.  So I would always say he loves things that spin, now I'm gonna say He likes to watch things spin, like the ceiling fan. he also loves to spin the wheels on things like the stroller. I am going to edit this post all the time with observations, and hopefully those observations will someday give  me a bit more insight when put all together.
Here is my list of Williams awesomeness!

He loves things that spin, LOL.
Specific examples: He will often get lost spinning the wheels on toy cars. He loves to knock over my rolling toolbox so he can spin the wheel on it. He also knocks over the stroller and spins that wheel. Also, he loves pinwheels, though he wont blow it, you have to. When he was younger he spent a lot of time staring at the ceiling fan, this has lessened a bit

MUSIC: William loves music since day one, he responded to music when he wouldn't respond to anything else.
My favorite example:

Easter bunny phenomenon: At the family Easter party I noticed he stopped several times to stare at the Easter bunny decoration on the wall.  Also the neighbor downstairs has a Easter bunny head on the door, he has to stop and stare at when he gets off the bus before he will move up the stairs.

Dumping and filling: This boy loves to put stuff in stuff, he stuffs things in any bucket he can find, he stuffs toys down his shirt, he will then empty and repeat over and over again.  He loves his shape sorter and paintbrush activity and any activity that is similar.