I haven't said much about NeVaeh lately but she had progressed leaps and bounds. I don't know if anyone realizes the hours I put into her Ipad. She uses the Talk Tablet app on the Ipad for communication. It is wonderful and NeVaeh benefits greatly from it. I get great Ideas from Facebook friends...mostly Julie who has a teenage son with 1p36. We are both are brainstorming together to get our kids vocabulary at their fullest. NeVaehs favorite pages are the food, out to eat and movie pages. But of course I don't have pictures of them. She uses this for school and home. She does get Speech therapy every day in school and we go to out patient ST every other week which is where she got started on the Ipad. It is one of her primary sources of communication. She however does know sign language and for anyone who knows NeVaeh realizes it is very easy to know what she wants. Her body language and gestures are very clear. At over 9 1/2 she is very smart just is unable to talk. She can say a couple words and we all hope someday she will come out talking. She jabbers a mile a minute and spits out big words but then never repeats them. Thanks to a generous gift from my mother for the Ipad a couple years ago she has been really going forward with it. She hates it if someone else tries to find a page for her as its hers. She has some fun games on the ipad and we used to lock this app in so she couldn't close it out but now this is the first thing she goes to. It is endless for the things we can put on it. So help me if it ever breaks....The first one Mom actually gave us the screen shattered....the week Paul died. We were able to get it replaced and had to start all over with it. Since then I've figured out (luckily) how to save it. She deleted it once because I forgot to reset the Ipad after cleaning some apps off of the Ipad so she was able to delete it. I about had a heart attack. It had over a year of work on it. I put the app back on and it was like a new app :( . Thankfully when I hooked it to the computer and restored it it all came back. Here's a few pictures of her pages. Note she has I bet over a hundred pages. She uses it well. Like I told Julie the other day..when she doesn't like something or it doesn't interest her she ignores it. But then one day she will surprise me and come to the page and tell me about it.
Main page that all the others are linked too. I actually have a fifth column added since I took this picture.
This is her main school page. Each link to new pages.
This is her holiday page. I'm trying something new for her. Have Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Easter each linked to new pages. Eventually will link them all to new pages with things about the holidays.
This is the Easter page
ThanksGiving
Christmas
Under Christmas I placed a tab for What I want for Christmas...Umm think her and I need to discuss things so we can be putting things her..lol
Here's her church page...I put the whole lords prayer on it. The Sunday school Choir sang a song that said Yeah in it so I put that on it too....that interested her but when I tried to get her to go to the church tab in church she got mad at me grabbed away the Ipad and and told me she wanted Chicken Nuggets....Ok Guess she was hungry LOL
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I put some games on it...her's go fish. She actually has learned how to play both Go fish and Uno fairly well. She's doing things other kids do!! Makes me so excited!!
This is the main game page that links to her games
This is the start of her library page....Its bigger now. I went on line for the school library and actually googled the names of books in the school library and put on her Talk Tablet app. When she goes to the library in school then she can pick what catagory book she wants and pick what book she actually wants. Then her classmates in school go with her and help her find that book.
This is a picture from one of her games on the Ipad....she can "color" a picture and snap the picture to save it. She loves this.
NeVaeh is progressing greatly in swimming. I think she has a float on in this picture but she has graduated to swimming without now. SHE CAN SWIM ALL BY HERSELF!!!!!
Which is more than I can say for myself LOL.
Our big girl continues to amaze us every day!!!!
