“Shut the door!”
Jonah yelled at me today from across the room. It was so unexpectedly appropriate… I was floored.
He had been playing outside most of the afternoon, but had decided to come back in.
Mama had decided to go outside and left the door open to the back yard.
Jonah let us know his frank opinion of that move.
Jonah had decided if HE was done in the back yard, it was time to shut the door and lock it.
So we did. Mama can fend for herself.
We have been working so long on labeling items and action words with Gemiini, flash cards and toys…
To hear him simultaneously label both an action and an object, formulate a sentence from words we have worked on, and generalize it appropriately, without a single repetition or prompt, is the payoff of hours and hours and HOURS of hard work.
And it’s all a victory to me. I couldn’t be more proud.
Things that come so naturally to some, take SO much time for others to learn.
It’s not the pace of the journey that matters. It’s the direction of it…
I love this from Autism Awareness Shop