We have been using a communication book with Abby where I printed small iPad icon-sized pictures of various toys she has and put them in little pockets. If Abby wants to play with a toy, she has to tell us first by pointing to the picture. She's doing a great job at this, although she sometimes gets frustrated when she can see the real toy and we make her point to the picture! All of this is getting her ready to use an iPad communication app where she will touch a picture and the iPad will speak for her. She's been working with one during speech sessions, and if she touches the picture of the blocks, it will say, "I want to play with blocks." It's pretty cool! The only problem we've hit is that it's sometimes hard to find the toy that she points to once she's told us she wants it...her toys were pretty much just thrown into 6 or 7 different baskets. There was no rhyme or reason to it, so I often would only give her picture choices of the toy...
Choosing joy and trusting God!