Today was a pretty good day with Tony, although because he had just had speech I think he got tired earlier than usual. We worked on “roll” with roll ball and bubbles and also manded go on the first try when we played with the toy cars. Still haven’t gotten a mand for the PLay-Dough or open door but as Jay said, it will come in time. We also worked on the beginning of teaching the tacts for the animal identification. He echoed “dog” along with some of the sounds when we did this.

We started to work on body parts with Mr. Potato Head and the spare parts and he successfuly tacted “ear” very clearly with the first prompt. I tried working on the receptives “touch your___” along with the tacting as Jay sugggested. I only got to eyes, nose and mouth before Tony started whining and wanted to continue drawing with his crayons. I gave him a break with the crayons for a couple minutes while I got out his Alphabet puzzle to work on which he really concentrated on. I only had to do a gestural prompt with letter “Z” “Q” which resemble “N” and “O.”

We also worked on a couple new motor imitations like “standing on one foot” which was pretty funny. Tony thought it was great that Parker and I looked so ridiculous standing all wobbly on one foot. Tony made several attempts to do this, but couldn’t keep his balance. After a little thought, Tony walked over to his chair and put one hand on for balance and stood on one foot. (Jay, should I mark this as a “yes”?).

After this, I though I would give him a break to play with Play-Dough and then work on colors. I used green and blue colors for the drill and my 3 exemplars included play-dough, ball and blocks of these two colors. I know that Tony knows the color blue, but as I was presenting them I think he knew what was going on and started throwing the balls (he was definitely getting tired).

We took him on a walk to see if we could get anything else out of him. He did respond to running (motor imitation run that is) with “run” but then tired out of only a few seconds. He made no request for swinging today, but was echoing up a storm when we took him near the lake to see the “water” and the “ducks.” He was exhausted by the time we got to the door and immediately grabbed MOm’s hand to be taken upstairs. So, although he was pretty tired throughout the session, Tony made a great effort with almost everything;.