“Michael is able to communicate with us through pictures. Visual supports have enabled him to increase his language comprehension, and he’s able to share language with us, either through the picture support or gestures. The first time he used the ‘sentence strip’ at home for his visual communication – and he initiated it – that was a major thing. Every single achievement…no matter how small, is major for us. The whole point of this is to make him as good as he can be, not to leave any stone unturned in this, and just to push him as far as he can go.”   – The Vaccariello Family