I have a Question

[shellynn24]

I'm new here and this section on DisAbilities made me want to join. Thank you so much for the ideas on ID's, especially the dog tag one on the shoelace! We're going in October with our then 5 year old who has PDD-NOS. I was wondering what to do to "label" him should he get away from us. I have his Kid ID card that I carry with me all the time that has his fingerprint on it, but the tag is a new one to me. Thank you all again.

When in Oct? We will be going in October as well, Oct 25-Nov 3. I just thought about getting the kids fingerprinted. We are going to get that done before we leave.

 

[shellynn24]

Another thought is that he use his better hand as his dominate hand and the other one as the base. Most signs that require a second hand the non-dominate hand serves as a base for the sign and is pretty much stationary, or just duplicates the dominate hand. It doesn't matter which hand is used as the dominate. sometimes it is not even consistant although when I interpret I try to be consistant. When talking I may switch dominance depending on the situation and what else I am doing.

I think I'll go to the library tomorrow and get a book to try to teach him a few signs. We'll see how he does . Thank you for the info.

 

[SueM in MN]

I might have missed how old your child is, but I know our library used to have a videotape with signed Fairy Tales that was very good.