Dwellness^™ • Vocabulary

Vocabulary

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Your Patient

Your patient’s Words, Word Approximations, and ASL Signs

[NOTE: Your patient cannot use all these words, word approximations, and American Sign Language (ASL) signs anymore. Many of these are words, word approximations, or ASL signs your patient could say in 2014, but has lost the ability. The words, word approximations, and ASL signs listed in BOLD are the words that he can use comfortably still. The other items listed are very good material for encouraging potential development.]

A

A — your patient can say the letter A

Air

All done — "Aw duh" or "Aw dun"

Apple

B

B — says the letter B

Baby

Ball

Barb (home nurse) — "baahb"

Boy — spoken or ASL signed

Book — spoken or ASL signed

Bubble

Bean

Blue (favorite color)

Blues (the music) — sounds like "boo"

Boat — ASL sign

Blow (to blow nose)

Bye-bye — "bah-bah" (most often sings the Bye-bye song)

Beach — similar to Peace, but listen for the ‘B’ or a "ch" sound

Bird — ASL sign, while imitating bird sound

Blue Clues — do the ears gesture like they do on the show

Boom-boom

Butt

C

C — says the letter C (can sound like "tee" or "kee")

Cake

Cake, to communicate "Happy Birthday" (see "Other Communication" below)

Car

Cook

Cookie

Cat

Chords (in music) — "cotch" or "cut"

Choo-choo

Computer — ASL sign only

Classical Music — "foot" for "flute"

Chair

Cheese — usually for posing for a picture

Coffee (when we go out in the van he’ll often say "coffee", then ask your patient "coffee and?" and your patient will say "cake!"

Cold

Color

Cow

Chicken

Cart (for riding the electric cart in the stores)

Craig (uncle)

Cuddle — "cuckle"

Cut

Clue — "coo"

D

D — says the letter D

Daddy

Dog

Door

Drum — drums on abdomen

E

E — says the letter E

Eat

Ear — speaks and points to ear

Eight

Eighteen

Eleven

Eye — speaks and points to eye

F

F — says the letter F

Fall

Farm (wants to sing "Old MacDonald" song) — "fah"

Fast — "fat"

Father — "fah-tuh"

Fish

Foot

Feet

Four

Fourteen

Five

Fifteen

Fries

Friday — "fi-tah"

Flute — "foot" (also says "foot" for "flute", to request Classical Music)

G

G- says the letter G (usually with a hard 'g', as in "good")

Go

Golf — "olf"

Green

Grandma — "Pee-tah"

Grandpa — "Papa"

Guitar — "ih-tah"

H

H — says the letter H

Happy

Harmonica — "muck-a-bee", or "muck-a-buck-a-bee"

Hat

Head (speaks and points to head)

Hi

Home — "hmm"

Hot

Hot dog

I

I — says the letter I

I

I'm

Ice cream — pronunciation varies around "I-tee"

J

J — says the letter J

Jesus — "Jee-jee"

Jazz — says the jazz cymbal rhythm, "ch-chch-ch-chch-ch"

K

K — says the letter K

Key

Keyboard (music) — "uck"

Kite

Kitty

Knee — "mee"

L

L — says the letter L (sounds like "eh-oh")

Light — "ite"

M

M — says the letter M

Mama

Mayo (Clinic) — "may-uh" — your patient often sings the word "Mayo" to Pattern #38 on the drum machine. Your patient also often calls out "Mayo!" when driving around on errands. Your patient loves going to Mayo Clinic!

Mom

Mommy

Man

Me

Meow — "ma-ow"

Michael (uncle) — "my-kuh"

Milk — "muk"

Monkey

More — ASL sign

Mum (sometimes, for Mom)

Music — ASL sign only

N

N — does not say the letter N (usually says the letter M instead)

Niki — "mickey"

No — shake head — not spoken, or just remains silent with no response

O

O — says the letter O

Off

On

One — "Un"

Ow

Owie

Out

Outside

P

P — says the letter P

Papa

Party

Phone — "fo-pee-ah"

Pie

Pita (a made-up word for Grandma)

Pray

Please — "Pee", with ASL sign

Puppy

Piano — "Pee-Pee"

Pop

Popcorn — "puppy-corn"

Pool — "poo"

Poop

Peach — may sound like "peace" or "beach"

Peace — may sound like "beach" or "peach"

Q

Q — says the letter Q (may sound like "coo")

R

R- says the letter R (sounds like "aw")

Rafi — "fee"

Red

S

S — says the letter S

Six

Sixteen

Seven

Seventeen

Shirt

Shoes — ASL sign only

Slow — "so"

Stomach — points to stomach

T

T — says the letter T

Two

Thank you — ASL sign only

Three — "tee"

Ten

Tissue

Toe

Toilet (to request bathroom) — ASL toilet sign, with sound "pff-pff"

Toy — "eh-doy"

Tree

Tummy — points to tummy

TV

Twelve

U

U — says the letter U (can sound like "oo")

Up

V

V — says the letter V (usually sounds like a softer letter B)

Voom-voom

W

W — needs to work on the letter W

Walk — "cawk"

Waffles — "fah-tah"

Water — "aw-tuh"

Woof-woof (for dog) — "oof-oof"

X

X — says the letter X (sounds like 'ets')

Y

Y — says the letter Y (usually sounds like the letter I)

Yeah (sometimes this pops out in response to a question)

Yellow — "eh-toe"

Yes — ASL sign only

Z

Z — says the letter Z (says very softly)

Other Communication

• Your patient sings certain songs to request them
• Amazing Grace
• Happy Birthday
• In recognition of a birthday
• As a way of singing "Good morning to you, Good morning to you…"
• Theme from the movie "Lilies of the Field"
• Stevie Wonder’s songs
• Isn’t She Lovely
• I Was Made to Love Her
• The Hallelujah Chorus
• Christmas carols
• Good King Wenceslas
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Oh Come All Ye Faithful
• Others
• Church music from the Catholic Mass
• Other music

[NOTE: Your patient can usually learn your name, or create an approximation of it.]