little by little he's changing me

i took zaavan to speech therapy alone for the first time today. after last week's underwhelming performance, today's was nothing short of spectacular.
after a few tries with different switches, we decided to try a "head switch". which was a little switch button that i held close to the side of his head for him to push using his head. it was connected to another recording device that used two phrases for our purposes today. one phrase was, "i want more bubbles". the other was, "turn the page."

to begin helping zaavan to communicate with the world around him, we are beginning by teaching him cause and effect. the trouble has been finding a "cause" that he can actually cause by himself. the head switch seems to be the answer as his neck is one of the few muscles he has fairly good conscious control of.

though some hits were questionable as to their intentionality, as things went on, it was clear that he was getting a good grasp of this and enacting it over and over again. even to the point of asking the therapist to begin turning the pages of the book at "t.v." speed. pray that this will continue. jON