Helping Children Recover from Brain Injury
“Seagull being fixed” Joey said to me as I was putting away the materials from one activity and transitioning us to the next. “Really?” I asked, “a seagull? What happened?”
“Sunny. Hurt.”
“The seagull was hurt? And needed to be fixed? Or was it a seagull? Was something else being fixed?”
“Reading. Broken.”
“Reading? Did the book break? Something is broken. Did a bird in the book break?
“Goldfish. Sick. All gone.” [Read more…]
As we were reading Curious George and the Fire Fighters, Joey asked for a fire engine by saying “Fire engine” on his device and pointing to the box where I had small fire engine toys. I handed him one but he looked perturbed. “Different fire engine” he said. OK, got it, you want a different one. “Do you want big fire engine or little fire engine?” I asked in a mix of oral language and on his AAC device. He immediately looked around the room for the big fire engine, answering my question with his eye gaze. [Read more…]
As 2017 draws to a close, it is hard to imagine that Joey has only had access to his eye gaze AAC device for a year. A year ago, we were so excited to get started with Joey’s eye gaze system, but also unsure of what it would mean, or even how to use it. Since the eye gaze technology itself is fairly new, we were all learning how to use it right along with Joey. [Read more…]
