It's Too Loud in Here!

This weekend we got to bring home Annie’s eye gaze communication computer (Dynovox) that she has checked out for a trial before we decide if she could benefit from having her very own.  There are screens with four options per screen of cartoon characters or songs, etc. and she just has to look at what she wants for it to be selected.  There’s a camera on the bottom that detects her eye movements.  (Click here to see a previous post with a picture of this device.)

Annie was playing with it today and Justin and I started talking to each other and Molly and Lexie started getting loud, and soon enough we realized that the volume on Annie’s computer had gotten REALLY loud.  We looked over and Annie had brought up an options screen with about 9 different buttons on it, but she had focused on the “volume up” button with an arrow pointing up in order to turn up the volume so she could hear over all the noise in the house!  It took Justin and me a while before we could even figure out how to open the options window ourselves!  It was so fun to see Annie use this computer to make choices about what she wants to do and listen to, but it’s even more fun to see that she even knew how to get to the options window so she could turn the volume up!  As I've said before, I think Annie knows a whole lot more than we give her credit for sometimes!