Recent content by Tina Powers

Yes, as I stated in a previous response he was saying "moon" and "window" which we would have included in the short video but the site wouldn't let us upload it, it kept telling us it was "too big". We shortened it and took out the verbal portions where he spoke those words as we figured they...

Yes. He has a small vocabulary of words he tries to say of which we have learned the meaning. He tries very hard.

Thank you for your help. Scott is often sensory bombarded and we are acutely aware of his issues with this but it is unlikely during sleeping hours. Nightmare is a good possibility and he may very well trying to describe something he visualized in his mind's eye while sleeping that he is unable...

What is he upset about? That is the billion dollar question and what we are working so hard to find out. He has never made this sign before but if we can eventually figure it out we will know for the future and/or teach him the correct ASL sign for what he is trying to express. Thank you for...

Thank you for your help. Scott is holding on to a jump rope that he is obsessed with. He slides the handles over two fingers and uses it to self stim. We made longer videos but spent much of the morning trying to upload them here to no avail. They were either too big or when we tried to post...

First, thank you for taking the time to try and help. We are puzzled as well as we know the signs for "maybe" and "more" and so does he. He is out of school so we are the only ones teaching him sign language and just can't figure out where this came from. He woke up at 5 am crying and using this...

Hello, my son is profoundly autistic and nonverbal. We use sign language and know many signs but this one came out of nowhere and he has become self abusive while repeating this sign over and over. We have asked him to type it to no avail. We tried to reverse search with no luck. Is there...