MANDS=60

Tony worked extremely well w/speech today but needed a lot of redirecting w/ABA. Even so, Tony independently tacted many objects and also made many requests. He is also doing really well w/intraverbals and echoics. In fact, after saying “no” to the therapists (Parker was also here today) he independently made an approx for “I don’t think so”. He said this twice and sounded just like mommy. Tony is constantly picking up new ways to tell us when he doesn’t want to do something (“all done”, “no”, “clean up”, “bye bye”, “go”) or he just tries pushing us out the door. He requested to “draw”, “go”, “walk”, and “crayon” and tacted “sun”, “face”, and many of his usual words. Tony did well w/ “do this”, “what’s this”, and “what sound does an animal make”. Tony tacted body parts “arm”, “mouth”, “eyes”, etc…, with his Mr. Potato Head and w/therapist’s face. We went outside a couple of times and Tony played “peek a boo” and put objects in a basketball hoop. Inside he did well w/receptives, stomping, turning around, clapping, throwing, rolling, and drawing. The biggest new about today is that Tony was constantly speaking and saying a few new words (some echoed and some independent). Okay day!