Sooo... Went MIA there for a bit... 'Tis the season, I suppose. Between baseball, dance recitals, working tons of extra in job #2, and being just generally boring lately, I guess I've just been lacking in blog-worthy material... But that'll happen sometimes.
Just wanted to pop in today and share something cool that I am trying with Keegan.
I discovered this iPod app a couple weeks ago, but in typical Steph-fashion I needed to spend a while thinking about it before making the jump... I read the user manual. I read all the rave reviews. I watched youtube videos. I flip-flopped over and over...
Finalyl I handed Keegan my iPod to see if his clunky little hands could even manipulate the buttons and the touch screen. He slid the arrow and unlocked it on the FIRST TRY.
I bought the app that day, and began playing with it.
This was a hard decision to make for a variety of reasons, primarily using an augmentative communication device is something Keegan's teachers and therapists have discouraged and dismissed every single time I have brought it up.
Every.
Single.
Time.
They spend a lot of time with Keegan, so obviously I respect their opinions. But... They don't sit at the dinner table with him and watch him slink away from the conversation, because he can not contribute in a manner that his sister and I can understand. And they are not the broken hearted Momma Bear that would do anything just to be able to hear what is on her son's mind...
Yesterday I showed it to him for the very first time after programming a few buttons on the main screen... And today we made this video.
I was left to wonder how something so WRONG (or so I've been told time and time again) could feel so right.
(I am so proud of him.)
