Wed 1 Feb 2006
Mands=40
As soon as we entered the therapy room Tony tripped over his feet and fell into his rocking chair, thereby piercing the corner of his left eye. We sped so fast to the hospital that instead of cars I saw flashes of color until there we were in the emergency room. Needless to say Tony was not a happy camper. In fact, while the nurse was trying to take Tony’s stats he was saying “all done”, “no”, and “clean up”. The nurse understood him and said, “we’ll be done soon”. Well, except for a minor wound and a black eye Tony is okay, which is great news since the doc said that he was only half an inch away from losing an eye! During the car ride home Tony requested verbally and w/sign “cup”. At home Tony requested his cup and “eat”, along w/”color”, “crayon”, “walk”, and “open”. Tony said “color thinking chair”, too so I drew a chair in his notebook. He tacted and said independently “thinking chair”, “Blue’s Clues”, “mailbox”, “letter”, and “flag”. These are approximations from his favorite show and some are really clear. Really all done and I did today was draw and tact pictures of clothing, body parts, and random objects. I used “what’s this”, “what sound does a dog make” and just a few other SDs as we played in the room. Tony was so frazzled though that I wasn’t doing too much as to not upset him. Eventually the poor guy was just ready to go down for a nap. The poor guy just doesn’t get a break!
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Great meeting today. We made a few adjustments in the ABA program and I wanted to post here for reminders. First, remember to record only the first opportunity Tony has to display a particular skill, as this has been labeled “cold probe” data collection. If he is weak in a particular area, attempt to build this area during subsequent training opportunities that day. Several objective were placed into “maintenance” today and these should be tested once per week to make sure Tony still has these skills. Of course, you are still reinforcing these skills throughout the day as well. I replaced MTS exercises with some objectives related to ABC’s and 123’s. Mix these up three at a time (initially) and have TOny put letters in respective slots of puzzle. You may want to pair this with ABC song some of the time.
Elizabeth, since you left early, I recommend you get with Whitney to touch base on the other objectives we added today…..Marlaina might also assist if she’s around. I’d like for us to begin videotaping short segments of working with Tony so that we can analyze our own teaching behavior……as we all want to be better teachers!!
Thanks for the wonderful hospitality today Ross family………
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Great meeting today. We made a few adjustments in the ABA program and I wanted to post here for reminders. First, remember to record only the first opportunity Tony has to display a particular skill, as this has been labeled “cold probe” data collection. If he is weak in a particular area, attempt to build this area during subsequent training opportunities that day. Several objective were placed into “maintenance” today and these should be tested once per week to make sure Tony still has these skills. Of course, you are still reinforcing these skills throughout the day as well. I replaced MTS exercises with some objectives related to ABC’s and 123’s. Mix these up three at a time (initially) and have TOny put letters in respective slots of puzzle. You may want to pair this with ABC song some of the time.
Elizabeth, since you left early, I recommend you get with Whitney to touch base on the other objectives we added today…..Marlaina might also assist if she’s around. I’d like for us to begin videotaping short segments of working with Tony so that we can analyze our own teaching behavior……as we all want to be better teachers!!
Thanks for the wonderful hospitality today Ross family………
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Great meeting today. We made a few adjustments in the ABA program and I wanted to post here for reminders. First, remember to record only the first opportunity Tony has to display a particular skill, as this has been labeled “cold probe” data collection. If he is weak in a particular area, attempt to build this area during subsequent training opportunities that day. Several objective were placed into “maintenance” today and these should be tested once per week to make sure Tony still has these skills. Of course, you are still reinforcing these skills throughout the day as well. I replaced MTS exercises with some objectives related to ABC’s and 123’s. Mix these up three at a time (initially) and have TOny put letters in respective slots of puzzle. You may want to pair this with ABC song some of the time.
Elizabeth, since you left early, I recommend you get with Whitney to touch base on the other objectives we added today…..Marlaina might also assist if she’s around. I’d like for us to begin videotaping short segments of working with Tony so that we can analyze our own teaching behavior……as we all want to be better teachers!!
Thanks for the wonderful hospitality today Ross family………
February 7th, 2006 at 5:17 am
Just for clarification, the original post from Elizabeth is actually from 2-1-06 and Jay’s comments refer to a meeting on 2-2-06.