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Who needs a DVD player when a tablespoon will make the baby recite the entire script of "Mary Poppins"? I am of a generation, and a family, where entire conversations can go by without an original sentence being uttered. It might go something like this: Simpsons, Simpsons, Dirty Dancing, Seinfeld, High Plains Drifter, Road House, infomercial, [...] Quinn’s first word at ten months old was “ball.” Her SECOND first word, with the sign, more than a year later and after months of silence, was “flower.” And it was every bit as thrilling. Sign language was huge for us in getting Quinn to speak again. Around her first birthday, we had made a list of all [...] When she started therapy, part of me was afraid of the change, and part of me was upset knowing that if these therapists saw things that needed changing, other people were seeing it too. And that might be all they could see. In the end, there were trade-offs. Plain English. The term can be deceptive. Plain leaves a lot open to interpretation. Take something as simple as leaving a store and saying, “Let’s go get in the car.” For Quinn, this was a moment to freeze and shut down. Flooded with information, her wheels started turning: “Which car? That one? That one over there? Who’s going? Why?” If you [...] |
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