The Communication Book

Sophie's first few weeks of school have provided us with many new opportunities for learning new communication skills to teach Sophie.  The Augmentative Communication Services OT and PT are nothing less than stellar and we are so excited to get things in place.

Our major hurdle right now is not Sophie, but the assistant that she has.  I won't get into it here, which is why the blog has cobwebs lately, but lets just say I am exhausted and still fighting for what I know is lacking.

The ACS OT and PT provided us with a Communication Book for Sophie to tell us with symbols what she did each day at school.  It is very cool.

Sophie gets to choose what her favourite things from each day were.  She shooses a Boardmaker symbol for each page.  We vocalize each symbol and show it to her as well.  Right now she is just learning what each symbol represents.  Some of them are very abstract.

 

 

 

 

Then she gets to ask us what we did and we can talk about it.  :)

We are working with more and more symbols with Sophie.  We will be getting Boardmaker at home soon and I can't wait to start making symbols for her for all our activities that we do each day.

 

Sophie's teacher is very supportive of using the symbols in the class.  She asked to have some at Sophie's desk so that the children in the class can talk to Sophie with her symbols.  YAY!!  The core words symbols are also going to be joining the words on the word wall.  So much inclusion happening, we are so excited.