In yesterdays blog I mentioned how I took the opportunity to ask Bryce about his colours. “What colour is your shirt?” “Blue!” “What colour is your shorts?” “Blue!” “What colourare s your eyes?” “Blue!” We ask him the W questions: Who, what, where, why, how. We do this for everything. Colours, shapes, letters, articles of clothing, body parts, people in his life, things we see, just everything.

We ask him a lot of questions that we know he will get right to encourage positive reinforcement and we ask him a lot of questions that we know he won’t get right to encourage him asking us the questions like ‘Who’s that?’ ‘What’s that?’.

This not only engages him in conversation and interaction, but it helps to keep refreshing what Bryce has learned. We take advantage of every opportunity to ask him these questions and labeling things so he knows the words. After all, if you don’t know what something is, or how to say it, how can you ever talk about it?

Thanks for reading,
Tanaya