How does one say “I love you” when they are non-verbal?
How does one say “I love you” when they are non-verbal?
How does one say “I love you” when they are non-verbal?
Jonah will repeat “I love you” much like any word combination he has learned recently (It is VERY cute “I YUV YU!”) but I haven’t heard him say it spontaneously, and honestly, I don’t know that he fully understands that phrase yet…
But you know what? I don’t actually care if I ever “hear” him say it on his own or not. For me, love has always been an action, not a word.
Sometimes, Jonah will come up to me and just put his hand on my back and smile. That is how he says “I love you.”
When he started hitting/slapping out of aggression a few years ago, I shaped it into “touching softly” and Jonah morphed that “soft touch” into a gentle pat… a hand on the back, or shoulder, with a grin. He will do it randomly to me, to Mama, to brother, and sometimes to the cats.
“I love you…”
How do your Ausome kiddos communicate “love?”
Love this from Walking With Drake
