Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Switch

This was breakfast this morning and we are using our new two communication switch. Basically I get to program in two different sayings, and depending on which button Bella pushes will give her the ability to make a choice. So using the two pictures I had taken earlier, Bella's choices for breakfast were "Food please" or "Drink please". She tends to use her right hand more, so she picked food more constantly. I had to help guide her hand to choose the drink. But she did hit it a couple times on her own.
Hopefully with lots of practice she can learn that she has the ability to choose. Only problem is that it's between two choices that we give her. But a choice between two objects is still better than nothing.

You'll also notice that she really followed me with the camera, which is great for her head control to be able to turn in all directions. We still can't get a smile out of her though. Something about that darn yellow light that comes out of our camera.

Oh and check out the wild child hair. We hadn't combed it yet this morning when the pictures were taken. I'm thinking it's really get near the time to give it a little trim.

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