The early years struggles

I was reading through an old blog post on this site about the early years. It was from around 2009. But I had a question and am seeking advise anyways. My toddler just turned 3 and has Apraxia of speech. His receptive skills are way above average, so I know he is very smart and learning. But as typical of apraxia his responsive skills are very very poor to non existent. On the blog post series Mrs. Sonya was talking about CM philosophy on early years learning. That we are to let the child observe everything he can about a place, object, animal, insect… We get the idea. And report back in their best accuracy their findings. And we are to send them back if they can’t remember. And it says that they are to picture paint scenes into their mind until they get it perfect. They are to do the listening game and describe what they hear.. I really can’t remember all the activities but the point was they do all of it with little prompts from us and do most the telling and describing without input from us. If I want to cultivate these good habits, how can I with a child that can’t speak and I have no way of knowing what he sees, his visions, his words, his experiences without my input? Right now i do it as in see the big butterfly? What color is it? He mutters something I say that’s right it’s yellow. Is it big or small than your hand. He mutters I say that’s right it is bigger. For listening I sit with him and he says Oooh I say ya I hear the owl too or I hear the bird too the bird said and we mimic the sounds. But most all activities are prompted by me. Not him. Am I harming his learning by him not exploring on his own his own way? He gets all the time he wants on his own to play but our learning in all forms is mostly one sided. Are his observation and exploring and attentive skills and all the others he’s practicing using now, be harmed by my guiding everything for him? What if he was thinking the butterfly was smaller or more orange than yellow or not eve seeing the butterfly but the dragonfly instead? If that makes sense? He mostly always agrees with everything I say for everything. So I don’t know if I’m right or wrong. When we practice letters he can point to ones I call out he can sign something’s that we have learned so far but not without prompting him to sign it his own opinions and observations of the world are mutters or silence. I don’t know what to do or how to help or if what we are doing is right?! I’m sorry that was so long thank you for your patience.

Morgan