My goal is to make sure all children I work with develop a safe, efficient, and effective way to communicate functionally. It is important that the child is engaged and motivated to learn as well as has successful attempts at communicating. This means that I find motivators that will make the child attempt forms of communication (be it gestures, ASL, picture icons, AAC, verbal approximations, etc.) that may be difficult at first but becomes easier given my support. This also means that I accept any forms of approximations even if the target word is not it's adult form. That is, I work within the child's comfort zone but provide additional support using direct models, gestures, visual aids, etc. so that we can progress to functional communication. It is important to also target consistency. Children with sCAS have had difficulties getting their message across and I will assist in making that message be heard. This may mean that the child and I will imitate a target word simultaneously and then I fade my support over time so that they can produce functional words and communicate effectively spontaneously.