I need to write a post on his utterances (or maybe get him to write it himself on his own journal),
Yes! Do! :-)
**FIXME's the same with the muh-muh-muh versus dah-dah-dah thing. Obviously I feel like the beneficiary here since I overclaim "Dah-dah" utterances as referring to me, but it does seem terribly unfair on his poor mother.
He's a bit older than the Garklet and has some more definite proto-words, but he's not taking off with spoken English language at any great rate of knots. I suspect a lack of incentive - he can communicate such a wide range of desires using his current repertoire of utterances and gestures that he doesn't feel a need for more.
Actually, it's often a two-way process with him communicating in binary:
"Not happy!" Oh, what's the matter? Do you want a hug and some attention? "Not happy!" Have you dropped this book? "Not happy!" Do you want this teddy bear? "Not happy!" Do you want to be picked up? "Not happy!" Oh, what's this underneath - it's a shape-sorter block. Did you want that? "Happy."
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Date: 2007-12-18 12:48 pm (UTC)Yes! Do! :-)
**FIXME's the same with the muh-muh-muh versus dah-dah-dah thing. Obviously I feel like the beneficiary here since I overclaim "Dah-dah" utterances as referring to me, but it does seem terribly unfair on his poor mother.
He's a bit older than the Garklet and has some more definite proto-words, but he's not taking off with spoken English language at any great rate of knots. I suspect a lack of incentive - he can communicate such a wide range of desires using his current repertoire of utterances and gestures that he doesn't feel a need for more.
Actually, it's often a two-way process with him communicating in binary:
"Not happy!"
Oh, what's the matter? Do you want a hug and some attention?
"Not happy!"
Have you dropped this book?
"Not happy!"
Do you want this teddy bear?
"Not happy!"
Do you want to be picked up?
"Not happy!"
Oh, what's this underneath - it's a shape-sorter block. Did you want that?
"Happy."