"Here's Your Sign"

It's starting to look like a conversation with Eric may be possible some day. He was having trouble getting his pullover jacket off. He came right up to me and said "help please".

Lately Eric has been wanting all the lights off in the house. So many times the TV and computer screen are the only light sources around here. I turn them on, he turns them off! One evening I actually wanted to read the stuff he came home from school with so I turned on the lights in the dining room, the ones on the ceiling fan. He comes by me, points up and says "off please". I finish up what I need to and turn off the lights. He says "thank you". Wow!!!

This evening the therapist told me he knew the whole alphabet in sign language. His former teacher has a hearing impaired child so this really didn't surprise me if he was taught something like this. I am surprised he remembered it all!

Last week I had Rhapsody on and I have some of Bill Envgall's stuff in my library. Anyway, one of his tracks was playing, and Eric said, at all the right times, "Here's your sign". Let me tell you that made my day.