Max snuggled too...but he had to keep his feet free!
I think we're going to creep back up to warmer weather this weekend. But we're headed up to the mountains to get some fall leaf pictures.
Okay...on to much more amazing things. Max has FINALLY received his speech generating device...or his talker as we call it around here. We have literally been waiting a year to get this. And it came this week! We set it up yesterday, and he hasn't shut-up since! :)
It's a TANGO!, provided by Dynavox Technologies.
We're waiting on the vendor representative to come and really get it set up and specified to Max, but as it goes, he's been sick for the past week and a half, and still fighting it off. So we set it up as much as we know how, and got it attached by Steve's ingenuity. We may not need the vendor to come, and may be able to just have the speech therapist set it up for Max's specific needs.
Out of the box, as he was playing around on it, the first thing he said to me was, "Let me try, I can do it by myself.". He also told us last night he "didn't want to go to bed, and wanted to stay up". Then wanted "one more thing, a story". Then chose "give me a hug and kiss" before finally saying goodnight.
Here are a few pictures of Max figuring out his new voice...
Waiting for the choice he wants (it scans through 6 choices and he waits to hit his blue switch to choose)
Making his choice...it's lightening fast so I got it with his eyes almost closed...
It is just so cool. I can't wait until we can get it really tailored to fit his talking needs. And be sure, there will be plenty of videos to come!
3 comments:
:-D I'm just so excited for you guys to be able to hear everything your son has inside him to say!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait for videos!!!!
With his old talker, it spoke the choices and repeated them when he hit the button, right?
With the Tango, does he look at pictures to make his choices?
OH my goodness.. How cool. It is different from the other one. I love all that Max is saying..even without it being set up for his specific needs. I can't wait to hear what he'll say when it is set up for him. Hope you'll video some of him talking.
O is so cute. I'd be covered up all the way..feet and all.
It's rainy here, but stays up in the 80's mostly. Crazy flooding.
Congratulations on the talker! I am sure he'll be coming out with some wonderful things!
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