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Communication is hard.
And especially hard if you don’t have an effective way to communicate with the world around you, like my Aidan. He has been on his communication journey since the moment we realized it wasn’t considered “normal” for him to not babble or have at least a couple of words…so, 17 months old.
He turns 16 tomorrow. And he still does not have a primary method of communication.
I tell myself to be kind to me. Don’t beat yourself up. You did the best you could with the knowledge you had at the time.
But yeah…still, I’m gonna be hard on myself because that is what I do. Even when I know better. We didn’t start focusing on communication outside of speech until Aidan was around 11 years old and we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.
Honestly, we still don’t. Which brings me to this point in our journey today.
I think I have been putting off doing this for some time because I didn’t want to admit that our son probably needed a reset. He doesn’t appear to be engaging with this iPad as much as he was, and I have run out of ways to interact with him in a way that would encourage him to use it.
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