Eric and Andy With the Vantage

The Vantage Lite, the electronic communication device Eric uses, is used during school and during therapy. Eric took much more interest in it while he was on a trial of one at school, now that he has his own not so much. He's learned to say so much verbally now, but this machine did help give him a jump start. Andy is using a very simple device like this at school, and may very well get his own Vantage Lite or something similar in time. He loves the machine and I think this would really benefit him.


Andy is having a good ol' time learning how this thing works. He's figured out how to use a computer quite well, so I'm thinking he will be better than me on this thing in no time.



Here's what he was saying. We'll get there...




Eric working with it during one of his therapy sessions. They had him typing his name on there. He can spell his first name quite easily, his last name he needed some help. This machine can do so much! It can talk for you, you can type on it, you can go on the Internet with it and use it as a computer. It's amazing. I went for a 6 hour training on this last summer and I honestly don't remember much of any of it! I'm very surprised how fast these boys are picking up on this.