Communication has been one of our hardest issues. PECS..I guess a lot of people swear by PECS and Makaton, those are the common tools used in our Special Needs Schools. For us, neither were effective, as much as I complained and whinged about them not working for Mikey, I still went on the courses, made the cards and boards and for seven years waited for any kind of result. Much to everyones surprise (Mikey has a way of surprising a person, or unsuspecting spider!) Mikey has picked up on British Sign Language, he uses the few signs he knows appropriately and it has given him a form of communicating thereby relieving a lot of his frustrations. It was Mikeys carer Michele who introduced this vocabulary to Mikey and I. Again, she managed to do what seven years in a special needs school could not. I wish I could go back in time to Mikeys younger years, drop the PECS and Makaton on focus a lot on sign language. My advice to anyone who is going through the communication mine field with their child..try a sign language teacher, cant hurt to try.
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Thank you for your comments Brinkka!
Frankly, I'm amazed Samantha. The "then and now" video really hits home. Mikey looks very grown up now and the signing certainly looks like a breakthrough for you and Mikey.
But, I'm more amazed that you have got to grips with the technology to edit, create and publish your own video in such a short time. It really brings your blog to life and no amount of wordage could have put the point across so well.
I hope you have lots of your older video clips that you can use in future videos.
I feel so proud and pleased for you.
Thanks so much John, and for all your help with the techno stuff...you may still have to rescue me when I end up rocking in a corner, drooling on myself, twitching with binary code flashing across my eyeballs...I have a lot of clips, not nearly enough and I am missing some years unfortunately, but not all is lost!
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