The day he was able to do the 'one more time' finger sign.

I was able to get him into a fourth therapy center,
and he started attending on Mondays.

I believe he was about 2 years and 5 months old.
Finally, I was able to have him attend three therapy facilities
on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Mondays were group therapy sessions with three children including my son,
and each child had their own teacher; here, all the teachers
were occupational therapists.

Even here, he was running around the whole time.

He would jump on a large trampoline, but
mostly he was just running around.

Since he wasn't speaking much,
I considered speech therapy,
but he was only two, and he had so much excess energy,
and he wanted to move, so the counselor said that at this point, it might be best to use physical therapy to let him move his body to his heart's content, stimulate his brain, and encourage speech to emerge.

Let's do this today.

Since that didn't really work, at all three places,
they let him do what he liked for now,
brought out various tools,
and trained him by using things he was interested in to guide him to express his feelings.

If there was something he didn't like, they would stop immediately and switch to something else.

They would come up with various ideas so that he would think,
'This is a fun place. I want to come here.'

'One more time'

The first time he was able to do that action
was at the therapy center he attended on Fridays.
There were occupational therapists and childcare workers, and also a speech-language pathologist.

At that time, the speech-language pathologist was in charge of him,
and they played a game where he would be dropped onto a large cushion (like a Yogibo).

My son was laughing and having a blast,
and after being dropped on the cushion, he would just laugh out loud
and not move.

I thought he was probably having so much fun that he wanted to do it one more time.
If he didn't like something, he would immediately leave the spot and run around, haha.

Of course, the teachers sensed that too,
so they took my child's hand,

and while saying 'One more time?',
they helped my son make the 'one more time' finger sign.

Do the same thing one more time.

Drop it onto the cushion
Show great joy
The teacher takes my son's hand and helps him make the 'one more time' hand gesture.

The teachers repeat this many times.

My son laughs out loud. He looks like he's having fun.

That was the day he became able to do the 'one more time' gesture.

He cannot say the words 'one more time', but

☝️

he has become able to make that hand gesture.

Even after we got home, whenever there was something he wanted me to do again,

☝️

he started doing that, and I was so moved.

It's a trivial thing, but I was moved that
he could learn to do something like this
in just a few dozen minutes a day.

I believe he was around 2 years and 10 months old at the time.