Here's another piece to the Rhys puzzle that contributed significantly to his language development. Some very dear friends of ours gave him a laptop computer, and we set it up for him to use in the living room (where all his toys are, and he spends the most time). We knew he had expressed a little interest in our computer keyboards, and he has been interested in the alphabet almost from birth. So we set it up and opened Word Pad, so he could "play" with it. Then we got the bright idea to look for a free screen reader, and we found a great one:
http://www.screenreader.net/
Thunder is completely free, and although it's not very customizable, it's still fantastic. Now when Rhys types words, it repeats the letters as he types them, and then it says the word when he hits 'enter'. Suddenly our mostly non-verbal boy was typing (and spelling correctly) 20 words... then 30... then 50... then we lost count.
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