Give it a key at home

Complete source

A paper cafe menu uses CUP for a cup drawing and PLATE for a plate drawing. A toy diner asks for PLATE.

Day

123

Family question

Would you like to keep this, change one thing, or stop here?

Home access

Five to ten flexible unpiloted minutes, or one tiny start. Broad scrap paper and a helper are enough. No print/device/account/photo/food/cutting/private identifiers or public share. Pass/rest/private/return; helper roles recorded.

Id

H03

Invitation

Choose harmless pretend kitchen drawings and give them meaningful keys. Try an own idea before the adult reasoning; all own places start empty.

Next offer

Leave CUP empty in an own draft and say that its item is not yet entered.

Notice

An explicit key names its intended representation without a universal-symbol claim.

Steps

1. Read or neutrally describe the complete source; ask which picture the child would like to find before showing a model.

2. PLATE returns the plate picture without food handling. Offer an own harmless item/key choice rather than require this supplied answer.

3. Make/direct one broad card or a faithful spoken/signed/AAC record. Show the given key or the child’s clearly stated own key.

4. Try one wanted request and keep only what actually happens; a picture/plan is not a real system encounter.

Title

Give it a key at home