Morning DJ Provides Motivation for a Boy's Speech

Dallas Derringer's first spoken words were a radio DJ's signature line, "batta-boom, batta-bing." Dallas, a 2-year old with autism, had not spoken and his speech therapist was trying to encourage him to sing when DJ Peter B.'s every-morning words came out of his mouth. When Dallas who listened to Peter B every day heard he was leaving the station, Dallas created a video of music and pictures to honor his hero and to help him deal with the upcoming change in his routine. Dallas, a patient at the University of Louisville's Weisskopf Child Evaluation Center, posted his video on YouTube and presented a copy to the radio station's Web site.

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