Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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Filling in the Blanks
I've talked about scripting here before - echolalia is the more technical term. It's easier for Ryan to pull a rote phrase from his quote machine to get his point across than to generate a brand new sentence. Sometimes the quote machine runs amok and weird phrases start flying at me and I can't figure out where they came from. But Ryan's short-list of the quotes he has selected as most important and meaningful have become pretty predictable.
Situation: I'm putting on Ryan's roller skates and knee pads.
What Ryan says: "This friend is trying to kill me!" (giggle giggle)
Source: Frog and Toad All Year. Frog is stuffing Toad into winter clothes so they can go sledding.
Implication: "You're putting a lot of equipment on me!"
Situation: Ryan is peeling a banana.
What Ryan says: "Now let me see: a line going this way - uh uh - and a line going this way - uh uh - and another line going straight across."
Source: Sesame Street - "A's Anatomy" - Grover, the Alphabet Specialist, demonstrates for his lowly medical students how to reassemble a letter A that has been in an A...A...Accident.
Implication: The peel comes off in three pieces; the process takes a little concentration. Appropriately, Ryan will also use this script when writing the letter A.
Situation: Any moment of frustration.
What Ryan says: "We'll catch that Letter C tomorrow." (very disappointed tone of voice)
Source: Word World - Pig and Ant wanted to make cookies, but their Letter Cs all rolled away. After much effort, they are giving up the search.
Implication: "I'm frustrated."
Situation: I give Ryan a glass of milk.
What Ryan says: "Mommy, look at all those bubbles! Your milk is beautiful! Your cup is beautiful! Your straw is beautiful!"
Source: Unknown - possibly the episode of Sesame Street in which Mary Mary Quite Contrary is planting flowers next to Oscar's trash can. People tell Oscar, "Your garden is beautiful!"
Implication: Um... pass.
Situation: We're playing hide and seek.
What Ryan says: "Big Buddy? Where aaaaaare you? I heeeeeeeeear you, but I can't seeeeeeeee you!"
Source: Word World - Pig is looking for Ant in a game of Hide and Seek.
Implication: Self-explanatory - this is how Hide & Seek is played.
Related: Sometimes he calls me Big Buddy in other contexts. I think this is awesome.
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"I didn't get where I am today by....." CJ in Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin - I find this infinitely useful.
It's really useful to have a library of expressions to draw on in different contexts particularly when one's own creativity hasn't yet caught up with events. Ryan's got a good strategy there!
Situation: I give Ryan a glass of milk.
What Ryan says: "Mommy, look at all those bubbles! Your milk is beautiful! Your cup is beautiful! Your straw is beautiful!"
Source: Unknown - possibly the episode of Sesame Street in which Mary Mary Quite Contrary is planting flowers next to Oscar's trash can. People tell Oscar, "Your garden is beautiful!"
Implication: Mayn't he be either obsessing with milk or saying thank you?
I try to explain to people that most of what Sky says is some kind of rote or patterned speech behavior that is not learned by the norm. He has progressed to where now, at seven, much of what he says sounds normal...but I know today's words were learned by watching one of his You Tube videos. So today is, "...a beautiful day on the Isand of Sodor." It's uncanny how they know where these phrases fit. OMG is a phrase used in some Thomas the Train Accidents Happen videos. I finally have him saying Gosh...for the G in OMG, so as not to offend anyone. More than half his language pattern was learned one word a time..cookie, want cookie, I want cookie, etc and one TV phrase at a time.