I make therapy motivating for the child by establishing rapport and finding the most appropriate evidence and motor based techniques that best suit their individual personality, ability level and temperament. I believe that Augmentative communication is essential to the non-verbal /minimally verbal child. This relieves stress and anger that the child may have, so he/she can focus on purposeful exchanges to improve their own lives and the lives of their family members. I believe a child must have a desire to communicate, be ready to participate and be motivated, in order to learn. I first have to make sure these are all intact. If they are not, we work up to those levels, meeting the child/family where they currently are. I utilize blends of multi-sensory approaches (visual, tactile, gestural ), The Dynamic Temporal & Tactile Cueing (DTTC) approach and The Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity approach. I will give the family a questionnaire to fill out, indicating words and targets that would like to be worked on. That information, in addition to the information obtained from the evaluation, will create a target vocabulary. Increasing expressive language is always incorporated into the current and/or future outlook.