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On mandarin-orange chicken day
Our son recently started using a communication device, his “talker”, to communicate with us. As many of you know, he’s medically complex with special needs and he is nonverbal. He’s getting quite good at telling us he’s “all done” or if he wants “more” of an activity. We were with family the other day and we were using his talker; I was asking him if he wanted more books. Upon asking him this and presenting him his communication device a family member said “how does he know what more means?” I had to take a deep breath. I had to think of an appropriate response, to be honest, I was…