Originally Posted by
wgscott
May I ask if he is he able to talk, or somehow participate in choosing a bike?
He communicates, but it's challenging. I have a video of him on Facebook riding, and he says, I think, "I saw what you did", which was in response to me videoing him. He talks mostly in single words and short phrases, unless he's repeating something he heard and then he could probably recite Hamlet's soliloquy, if he were so inclined.
Whenever we go to the bike shop, his excitement is through the roof. When we get to point of a new bike, I'll probably talk to the shop in advance and schedule a time to guide him toward a couple of 24" bikes. He'll express his choice in his own way, probably sitting on the one he wants and saying, "This one."