communication

Communication update - long overdue

Posted by Jason on September 17, 2011 - 5:34pm in Jason's Blog.

I've been meaning to post an update on Penelope's communication skills for a few weeks, but life keeps getting in the way. Anyway, here we go. Penelope has really started learning words quickly now. We can judge how interested she is in something by how fast she learns the word for it. For example, she learned the word "swing" within a day or two of us putting up the swing, to the point where we would have to use code if we wanted to talk about it without her demanding to go on the swing.

Here Kitty Kitty

Posted by Jason on June 8, 2011 - 10:20pm in Jason's Blog.

Penelope has now attempted inter-species communication. We usually keep Nina out of Penelope's room. Tonight, while we were putting Penelope to bed, Nina snuck her way into the room. Penelope saw her and tried to crawl over to her, but Katie and I were in the way. Rather than go around us, Penelope looked at Nina and made the "come" sign very clearly, which we have recently been teaching her. Nina didn't seem to understand, and even if she did, her dislike of Penelope would prevent her from ever coming over. But Penelope tried to communicate anyway.

Signing with Penelope

Posted by Jason on January 9, 2011 - 3:42pm in Jason's Blog.

On Saturday, I had a major communication breakthrough with Penelope. Awhile ago, Katie and I decided that we would try to introduce sign language as a bridge to talking.