Putting her 'talker' to use

All of Megan's components arrived today so I assembled them and downloaded her speech app.  Her 'talker' is up and running.  I changed out the pictures on the words that had ones she wouldn't recognize and it was time for speech.

The case does a great job of amplifying the sound, though it does distort it a little bit.  I will take a little distortion though to have it be loud enough for us to hear her anywhere in the house.  She did well with it during speech, though since it was the first time she had seen it she was exploring the case a little bit too.

At one point she did something amazing.  Meredyth unbuckled her from the swing and Megan climbed down into the floor.  Meredyth turned around to get something new for Megan to play with and during this time Megan walked over to the musical toy she had been playing with prior to the swing.  I put the talker on the floor beside her and looked up to check on Sam.  I looked back down and watched Megan reach over and push the 'on' button.  She did this all on her own without any instruction or encouragement from anyone.

There were other times when she wanted something and Meredyth was encouraging and asking Megan to use the talker and Megan was just refusing.  This is how it is going right now: one moment she is using it without any prompting and a little bit later she won't use it regardless of how much she wants what she wants.