Her speech therapist called me this morning to review her goals for next year (that is for another post, ugh!) and at the end of the discussion she said that she feels bad that she was the cause of Megan's sleeping issues. I assured her again that we don't blame her, she didn't do anything on purpose, etc, etc. She said that in addition to washing her hands before she works with Megan she will clean all of her therapy tools before Monday. This was going to be my next request so it was nice to have her offer on her own.
We have decided to move forward with getting Megan an AAC (Augmented and Assisted Communication) system. We were headed in that direction by using the Boardmaker pictures but have decided to move to using an application on the iPad. I have talked about her using it during her private speech sessions. We have been waiting to demo the actual application we want to use prior to buying it; but decided to go ahead and order her the case and iPad she will need. She has an iPad that she uses for games, which have greatly helped with her fine motor skills, as well as, learning shapes, colors, matching, big/little, etc. We cannot use the same iPad for her "talker" because we would have to remove her ability to talk in order for her to play a game. We are not going to give her a voice only to take it away from her if she requests to play a game.
We are still patiently waiting (so hard for me I so just want to get her anything she needs, immediately) for her therapist to download a copy of the application so I can make sure it is the one I want for her.
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