Teacher: Josh had a good day today. And he kept answering all the questions. I told him he had to give the other kids a turn.
Me: Josh! You're using your words??!
You have no idea what this means to me. Josh. My Josh is being told to give the other kids a turn to talk.
Talking has not come easy to him. And it still isn't easy, but we've gone through the parrot mimicking to the repeating a few canned phrases over and over to one word to two and three words to now almost always using full sentences. Short sentences, but still complete.
For Miss Kelly to give this news today was the best music these ears of mine have heard in awhile.
