Will THESE Tools help Mikko TALK?!
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2024
- Most of Mikko's communication seems pointless to someone on the outside looking in, but in the midst of her making sounds she IS speaking and asking questions. It takes a lot of observation and routine consistency to understand and speak HER language. We often try to get Mikko tools and items that assist in her face and body muscle strength to help her form new sounds and words. I hope this video helps you understand a little bit more about what Nonverbal Autism is and how to encourage speech.
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put her hand on your throat, so she can feel the lack of vibration. then put her hand onto her own throat so she can recognize the difference between breath and voice
Thank you for that suggestion bc I will use with my grandson now. Shalom
I did this with my Son, that Dr s said was totally deaf, at birth as well as, placing his hands on my mouth, when I talked.
He ended up talking early and was not totally deaf! 🙏🏽❤️🙌🏽😇🍼🥰
Talk in her hand and she can feel how your lips move.
I ALSO talk with my mouth on theirs. Like saying...Mom, etc.
It helps them learn to move their mouth similarly, feeling the way your mouth moves and the vibrations of the sounds you make.
She can be hilarious sometimes. You’re doing great Mikko. Good job Mommy. 😊
Mommy doing a great job, this is difficult
Precious you are a BIG help to parent's with learning skills whether autistic or not. What makes you special is you are consistent with Mikko, and you do hours of home speech therapy every day. Other parent's - not all - think 1 hour with a therapist is enough. No it isn't. My sister's son was behind and had ADHD. Her children stayed with me 60 weekends a year Friday night to Sunday night (she worked weekends). I worked with him every time he was with me. Even his sister was learning. So I appreciate you sharing your tools.
60 weekends a year? There are 52 weekends in a year!
Hmmm…🧐 60 weekends a year??
(maybe you should fix that, just saying)🤷🏽♀️
@@lessehead🤭🤭 🤫
I love, love, LOVE hearing her voice!
I SWEAR she said 'look at what I got' and 'you gave me this' in the very beginng of the video with the raisin. It's like she speaks really fast and growl/garbles the words with other sounds. There was a little girl that lived on my street with a severe speech impediment and only her brother could understand her. But, the more time I spent around her, the more I understood her. She ended up in speech therapy and they discovered she spoke fast and cut off syllables of words. Now she's an adult and speaks with no issues. Maybe this is why I pick up things in Mikko's sounds??
Yes I have to agree my son who is with the Lord now when he was a child he was delayed in his speech 18 months and he had began stuttering around the age of 4:00 so I took him to speech therapy and they helped me to understand that he had to slow down. He needed to slow his mind down. So I had to be patient with him and guide him..
I hear Miko saying many things. And she is going to be talking a lot more mom... Keep doing what you're doing because she is going to be very verbal very soon!!!
This is my ex's son. People think it's gibberish but it's actually super fast echolalia
I think she was saying "wheel" at the beginning. She was rolling the raisin back and forth and making sounds like a car.
Mikko is clearly very quick to improve the best she can with all the tasks she is given. Her speech is also coming along very nicely. I think she’s talking more than a few months ago. She’s clearly very bright x
Hi there. I found that my autistic students LOVED a microphone! They enjoy hearing their voice amplified and would repeat words that I would say to them. They also memorized dr. Seuss books (with CD's) and began to recite / repeat along with the CD. They were totally non-verbal initially. Give it a try. Find her fav book with cd...Keep up the good work! 🙏😊
You are such a great patient Mom...Mikko will learn so much through you!
I have been following you all for a little over a year and Mikko is a lot more verbal that she was before. It's wonderful to hear her communicate with u 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Very interesting to see this old school party favour being used as a tool to help with speech therapy. Amazing. ❤
Also blowing bubbles and feathers off the hand.
The last squeak was hilarious! 😄
You're doing some great work with her at home. I would warn others that there is no evidence base for talk tools working in an autistic population or those with delayed language skills prior to others investing in an expensive kit. I love how you interact with her and support her communication development.
You have to buy those things??🤦🏽♀️
I witness your power and determination, Mama. How precious that you share with the world community your experience. Wishing you all the support and rest you need too!❤
She did it she blew the horn and kudos to Mikko and that’s what be saying that she’s very eager to learn and she wants praise and cheering bcuz she is a good girl and a smart one too so kudos to Mikko for blowing the horn and I know that made her feel very happy and excited too and me too I’m very proud of her once again and always will be
Bravo Mikko, she is getting the hang of it. Keep working with this precious baby girl. So happy to watch her accomplish tasks. Mikko is smart and will eventually become fully verbal eventually. You are doing a wonderful job!!
Aww, Mikko is so cute! Keep up the good work momma!
Problem solving at the end...there you go! Hahaha! Glad to see big smiles on Mikko's face...lil sweetie 😊
Yes Mikko. I am sitting here smiling so big each time she blows it all the way out. She is so proud!
You are so patient
Mikko has a sense of humor. ❤
She is so smart.
She will get there mom
I commend you for being a great mom with great patience.
May God keep and strengthen your family .❤
I just wanna say kudos to you mama bcuz Mikko have came a long way and she’s going to go real far and I know she is bcuz she’s very eager of learning and she does have her little fits and don’t sit when it’s time to learn at times but that’s all part of her learning disability and she’ll get it as her brain mature more for her bcuz I believe in her that she’ll get it in all due time bcuz she got a very patient mother that’s why so thank you for showing this to other parents that have similar kids or a child like yours and thank you once again bcuz Mikko have came along ways and I’m very proud of her of me just watching your channel and tuning in on your UA-cam
I became so excited when Mikko was able to blow out the tool. To me, that was progress.
I love when she hugs her father and mother. Go Mikko🎉❤🎉
Mikko is smart. You are doing a good job with helping her to learn. Prayers for all
awesome job Mommy your journey is a hard one but its full of love, i am a parent of 2 autistic kids girl and a boy aged 13 non-verbal and loves to listen to jazz, gospel, and 60's music, and a girl 11 partially verbal she loves to sing i listen to her everyday watch the videos she loves to record herself on my phone, i work away so I only see them 4 days a month which is not a lot, i miss them so much I'm grateful for the schools they are in they do an awesome job.
Mikko is smart, I love watching her grasp something new. You’re a great mom.
You are doing an excellent job.May God strengthen you.loads of kisses to Mikko❤❤❤
She was trying so hard to say rasin I'm so proud of her yea great job that made my day mom and dad are doing an beyond a amazing job
She's sitting down and ready to learn.
Thank God she is starting to communicate...I don't see her everyday and I can see her progress, she has an awesome Mom....just stay patient and keep on track...God is with you I believe he keep us strong she will progress
That was great. Go Mikko so proud of her trying. Great job mom😊❤
Mikko treatment and training is coming a long way. Awesome work Mom.
She was so proud of herself..❤
Go precious you’re doing better and better much love Miko
SLP/AAC Spec., here. I want to encourage you to reach out to a speech-language therapist concerning functional communication. Right now, you appear to be focusing on verbal language vs. taking a multi-modal (verbal + sign language, low/high-tech *symbolic communication* , etc.) approach to building immediate functional communication skills.
I think the goals you have for these talk tools don't necessarily align with their purpose for speech therapy. If Mikko is also receiving feeding therapy and and sensory integration, it's best to consult an SLP and OT for protocol and purpose.
I don't mean for this post to sound critical or to be another "expert" in your comment section (even bearing the credentials and experience) but there are many more tools that can be at your disposal, that are evidence-based and provide greater support of functional communication skills, if you seek the support of an SLP.
Well, I appreciate your expertise although idk a thing about autism, I’m glad you let her know these things aren’t being used correctly. ( I think that’s what you said!)
I agree, She needs ABA THERAPY as well.
She desperately needs therapy, outside of the home.
I do not understand the hesitation of this mother and family to reach out for all the help than get with her!! What's the issue with this?? Not having additional help id hindering not helping!! It's almost like this is pivoting into SNL UA-cam obsession than anything!! If someone knows why she isn't in additional therapy please comment..
For those asking/opining about Mikko having/needing services, Precious has shared that Mikko is now receiving services, she just doesn't explicitly share this in her videos-- instead, choosing to include it in the description of her videos. 🤷🏾♀️
Great job being so patience with Mikko! My son is also on the spectrum and we had an ABA therapist coming to our home to do one on one therapy on a weekly basis for many months which helped a lot and now he is able to communicate like other kids his age in school . I know you mentioned before that ABA is not suitable for Mikko right now. I can see lots of progress with Mikko as she grows, and I totally agree with you that it is a lot harder to teach her because you are the mom. Keep up the good work!❤
May I ask how old is your son and is he now fully conversational with peers? I am thinking if ABA therapy should be the route that I take
@@jalu8334 He is turning five this year and his communication skill is almost the same compare to most of the other kids in kindergarten . He is able to follow the class program with no problem and talk to make friends. I know he probably will need more speech therapy/support when he goes into grade school. But I think ABA worked for my son in terms of getting him to start his speech. It doesn’t hurt to try and doing it at home was helpful too. Hope you will find something that works too! :)
@@mandylu thank you so much for replying to my question. I will definitely look into it.
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ABA therapy helped my daughter a lot as well. But you have to actually want the outside help for it to work. And she doesn't seem to want much outside help or advice when it comes to getting help from outside. It's already mentally and physically exhausting on the parent so getting help would not also help Mikko more in the long run but it would also help Mom. My daughter is almost 10 years old and will be in the 5th grade this coming School year. Last year she mastered the STAAR test in reading and math. She's in general education classes now with the help of speech therapy from school if she needs it because she has a hard time with P words sometimes. But the therapy would help so much for her and it would be great for her to see someone else outside of mom because they listen more. Like her therapist used to always tell me she's going to always poke the bear when it comes to Mom. But I had to put my pride aside and stop thinking that I was an actual superhero with a cape and get some help for my child. And that's one of the best things I could have ever done. And I hope one day she considers it for Mikko❤. Although we always want to do it all by ourselves we just can't. Especially when it comes to what's best for the child. And also she is very much verbal
You are an amazing mother! So patient.
Precious she started knowing how to use it after you were trying to teach her. She is a baby let her have her fun with it even though it got broken
Precious...I have been here since DAY 1 WHEN you guys came to youtube..Mikko has made so. Much progress because of you..Keep going...You got this.❤❤❤ Texas Angie
Omg i love when you're talking to the camera and then she looks at the camera and babels. I love that kind of play.
I was so happy when she blew it out. She's going to be able to fully verbalize soon. This girl has definitely tugged at my heart strings.
Am I missing something? We blew into those as kids, especially at birthday parties, and that was many moons ago.
You’re not missing anything, yup, that’s all they are, birthday party favors, I hope she didn’t pay for them!!😂😂
She would still have to pay for them regardless. Hopefully they were priced low like party favors☝🏽…definitely served the purpose.
I loved this video, so many cute moments. You two are absolutely communicating. I feel like she is communicating so much more. She feels your energy and i think she can tell when you are a little frustrated with her. Then she reacts. 💡 To help encourage the talking, please be a little more animated with her and exciting ❤. The others may get a little jealous to see you be so playful with her, but she needs it and I think it will help her feel comfortable with using her words and she will enjoy getting the animated praise🙏
Those paper party favors are a hit with her. Try making them with regular paper so she could easily blow them out. She is sooo smart and eager to please. Also have you tried baby sign language with Mikko? It might seem like a step back but it might help with overall communication. She’s just like the kids I nanny and break stuff all the time 😂😂❤️❤️❤️
She is a little prankster. Her personality is so sweet!
She’s super smart and says a lot of words.
Love the encouragement Mom! ❤
I have to lay things out in advance before I engage my son with it, to include eating, getting dressed, reading, etc. It’s a more successful experience, otherwise he’s all over the place, and I get nothing accomplished but getting frazzled.
For choices, I give up to three options, pre-pulled, that way he can tap on it, and not get distracted by all the pantry fun.
I find incentives/a reward system helps as well
She’s an escapee, as my son is. She know’s what she is doing.
Always growing always evolving, always learning.
My son didn’t say mama until he was 4 years old, and he didn’t know what the word meant, but I was so proud of him.
He is now 9 and says four letter sentences,knows his alphabet, colors, shapes, and has counted to 36, with assistance. He has initiated alpha phonetics A-Z with his choice of words.
He likes watching UA-cam Kids. Phonetics, counting, Blippi shapes, feelings, and colors. Much much more. I just monitor so it doesn’t go to non educational junk.
Keep going mom! You’re doing great! ❤
You are doing an amazing job. Mikko is a beautiful, free spirit whose emoting sounds like her own music. It can be difficult and working with outside support may be a great support for your own self care. May I suggest for the snack closet… using 3 larger clear drawer containers on the bottom shelf with the picture tape on the front may help her make a decision.
Keeping her things like snack, arts and crafts, and therapy tools sorted may allow her to visually see and communicate what she wants even subtly. Lastly, two things picture cards and a designated timer may also help reduce frustration.
Also, I just saw your added comments about you learning to be more stern. That seems very appropriate to me. She is smart and she seems to be playful as well!
She’s absolutely precious and my daughter and I love ❤️ you all
Hi to mikko and her mom for doing the absolute best with her❤
Mikko is going to be a great talker someday. Just keep working with her. I had 2 Grandsons from different parents who sounded like her when you were in the pantry with her. They each had a speech therapist that taught them at her age. They are grown men now and doing awesome. with no trace of what went on earlier. Great job Mother!!
You are doing some great work with Mikko.
I look forward to when Mikko has an easier time communicating complex ideas. I really want to know from her perspective what it's like to be nonverbal and what kind of things keep her from doing words. Great work with all the love, support, and patience. And thank you so much for letting us learn about y'all's journey. Best wishes!
Seeing you work on breath support with her is just delightful. Most people don't understand there's more to speech than just talking. Another visual way to work breath is to blow up balloons but that can be hard even for older children. An alternative for a kid around her age would be to make some tiny paper balls and have her try to blow them out through a straw. That way, she can see the balls moving around on the table/floor as the air hits them. You can do fun activities with that, like having several lanes and having multiple people do paper ball racing. :)
She's doing excellent!❤
I've never heard of talk tools, thanks for sharing i'll be trying this!
Wow! A precious child and an amazing mother! May his shower his blessing down on your family!
She reminds me so much of my grandson Larken, he’s also nonverbal autistic, he’s six years old. These tools are interesting, I’ll be sure to share with my daughter. Larken does receive speech therapy at school. He’s also a runner, he runs a circle around the entire house, indoors of course.
The two of you are INCREDIBLE !!! LOVE!!!
SHE IS GOING TO TALK, YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE SHOCKED
First you are an amazing mother! The patience and caring you show is without words. I can not imagine what you go through outside of what you show on camera. I read some of the comments and they are sometimes not very nice. You handle them with grace. Mikko is a beautiful child and I am sure you are going to get her to adulthood with all you do. She is very lucky to have you for a mother. I really don't know how this condition works I do have a friend whose son was born with autism he is now an adult. He some times does not realize his own strength thank god she also has a supportive spouse. Mikko is very smart you can see from these videos that she does understand how to get her way and what she needs to do. I guess that is a good thing in her journey towards growing but to keep her safe she should also understand boundaries. I am sure that will come too.
You are doing such a great job with Mikko.
That kid is just as amazing as her family! She's going to do great things! She comes from strong DNA!
I learned how to play the flute and clarinet and sight reading before singing in the choir at school and church language programs. Good job!
I haven't been watching you all very long but she is learning and there is improvement every day
Thanks for sharing this information, your daughter is beautiful. You are such a loving parent. Wonderful example you are setting.
I'm smiling! So precious!
Similar things helped my son a lot, and soap bubbles and blowing out candles also helped him master proper exhalation.
Do you qualify for state insurance? Try getting her AAC device! It will help promote her communication skills.
Mikko is just just just like my baby sister down to a tee, down to her most used word being baby, bye bye and how she wants to get all sweet and give hugs and kisses outta no where sometimes. How she runs away when she doesn’t understand what’s going on. Man you’re so strong.
I don't think she legitimately said, "did you cook". Please don't get me wrong, I love me some Mikko, but if we're honest, I don't think Mikko is at the level where she's using meaningful communication & sometimes her verbal stimming by happistance brings sounds together that appear to be intentional, actual, meaningful words, but they just aren't.
I think you’re right, and tbh, I don’t come here much mainly bcoz 90% of her videos are of Mikko screaming while getting her hair brushed or throwing a fit bcoz it’s time for a bath…but I don’t see these tools doing much for her. Maybe she’s too young, who knows?🤷🏽♀️. Not much progress with these party favors!
I wonder if playing Cheryl porters exercises might also help, kids seem to enjoy that a lot.
Mikko is very clever, she has 2 phenomenal parents and siblings to guide her
Go Mikko Go! I love this! Going to steal this technique & practice with my son who is 3 & speech delay.
Thank you so much for sharing your lives. Great to see how she is progressing. When I have a different situation to deal with as I wait for the other person I will pray or sing a song. I don't know ifvyou haveva religious background. It helps me to stay calm. You are doing an amazing job❤
Beautiful Joy🌹🕊😇🕊🌹 Continuous Comfort =💖🦋💖
Awesome Job
My son Harlem is 5 and he is on the spectrum and he talks and reads so well and every time he sees me watching your videos he always says hi mikko and I think it’s so awesome I think they would make great friends
I watch your videos and just wanted to let u know dont give up. As a mother of a daughter with autism it's hard but so worth it. The doctors said she would not have a productive life and would function in the world at a basic level. BULLSHIT IS WHAT I SAID. My daughter did not talk until she was 3, not a single word just sounds and pointing, then she just came out with full sentences. FAST FORWARD to today. She's in the 6th grade in regular classes talking fully and beginning to act like a normal teenage girl (uugghhh). Keep going young lady ur doing great
Aww bless her little heart❤
If I may suggest, you can try light feathers that she can blow off her hand, a pin wheel, and bubbles too. Bubbles are probably a bit more advanced but I think it would be fun for her to practice saying “pop, pop” also it is a good thing for her to use to make a request. Not sure if anyone has suggested this but using pictures of items that she frequently uses is a good way for her to learn words and independently make requests. You can model the words with the pictures and prompt her to say the words every time she hands you the picture of what she wants.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽 great job Mikko 🎉 🎉🎉🎉 your patience is unmeasurable 🥰🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
My grand will be 5 in May and she been in school since she was 3 she is doing really well she is able to move on to kindergarten wtbs she is nonverbal but she can sing full songs she also can count and sing her ABC she also can count by 2 to 50 all because of a show called Gracie's Coner so we have learned she can learn very well through music she still isn't speaking she does say things sometime she says hello or my daughter name ziah .. she finish songs and lately she has been responding to us calling her name keep making these vidoes they def helps us with our Ariel 🎉
I just love you guys! 💜
I wonder if that's her way of saying please?! She's so adorable. I don't know how you don't give in every time. Great job! 🎉
Thank you very much for these videos
Yaaayyy Mikko. Well done. ♥♥♥
Thanks for sharing with us.
Awww she makes me wanna cry😢😢 she so precious and sweet ❤❤
U are doing so great mama I can understand it being frustrating sometimes, I have worked with kids with autism for close to 40yrs. So if I could make a suggestion? When it comes to working with her...have 2 things : a visual or sand timer for the length of "work " time and have an edible reward that she ONLY gets at "work" time the physical reward like the high5 as well as verbal reward like good job are AMAZING aswell. Another thing that would help would have visual aids like printing pictures from Google like on the cupboard put a snack picture and have some visual aids that u can print smaller ( have them plastified) and put on a keyring that would help with what u are asking of her or help her understand what u are saying. Also have a "work ( could be a picture of someone or her sitting on a chair ) then ( having an arrow ➡️ pointing ) reward picto or park or whatever with Velcro on the back so u can change it up. I've used this in school at the child's home or on outtings. So I can show them that this is what's happening and then the thing after or the expectation. When she doesn't want to do something or avoid something she throws it or wants a hug is very normal she just doesn't want to do it but what's great is that u don't give in. Ur understanding capacity of ur beautiful baby with autism is truly moving. It takes a lot of patience, tolerance, love and acceptance with ANY children but with a daughter with autism is magical to watch. Thank u so very much for taking the time to make these videos. I do wish I'd be able to see more lol but I totally understand. Thank you for allowing me into ur home and into ur life with ur family. ❤
Mikko❤you make us all smile.
Mikko is such a cute kid! Such a beautiful child! And she does speak in her unique way!
Great job Mikko!!
She is so adorable 🥰
🎉🎉Mikko is doing great!!!!❤❤
well done mikko your doing so well,your mummy is a superstar
Good, Job Mikko u did Great 😊👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Blowing bubbles first could help her understanding of 'blow'. Using her breath to blow an already inflated balloon, up into the air could help her. Blowing items like cotton balls across the table. You could put colored tape on the table and ask her to blow the cotton ball across the tape and increases vocabulary that she hears (across). Using a communication app on a tablet helps children learn to speak as well. The data and my own working knowledge, show that children learn to speak and the tablet helps them share more complicated requests and responses. Many people believe it takes place of speakiing, but data shows that it doesn't. I think she will pick up the patterns of language quickly. Assistive Ware has training videos and online support. They can answer questions. It takes Autistic individuals a long time to learn language and you are doing a great job! You're right, when you said she probably doesn't want to work for you. That's typical in all kids. = ) Aspergers Experts is a great site for parent learning. Danny, the host, was non-verbal until adulthood. He now trains parents. Anyway, keep up the great work. You two are the cutest little pair. 😊
Mom you are AWESOME!!!
I have been seeing a listening sensory tool by Autism in focus which uses sound frequency to support communication in autistic children. I thought of Micko when l saw it ❤❤
AMEN 🙏🏽 I, LOVE ❤️ HOW PATIENT YOU ARE NO MATTER HOW CHALLENGING IT MAY BE AT TIMES YOU ARE THE TRUE DEFINITION OF A MOTHER GOD BLESS 🙏🏽💜🤗♥️AMEN