MANDS = 11 (I forgot during the beginning though..oops! Sorry!)

Today was a great day with Tony. He was very engaged in most of the activities we did. Still didn’t have time to get on to the tacts of adjectives but I need to gather all the different exemplars for it. I started to do the color drill again with 3 different exemplars, but Tony didn’t want to focus on it. I did work with him on colors with his magnetic coloring book that he loves (I had to pull it away from him while he was getting a diaper change and he wouldn’t let it go!).

We got through a lot of mands today and Tony especially loved having the “big” ball rolled to him across the floor. He requested “roll” multiple time and then I would ask him to roll it back to me, which he did while he laughed. Tony also made requests for Play-Dough. He didn’t verbalize but walked up to me and said “up” so that I would pick him up so he could reach the Play-Dough. I gave him the Play-Dough (3 cans) and before I gave it to him I said “say Play-Dough.” By the third can, Tony made an approximation to the echoic of “Play-Dough.”

Tony also wanted to play with his Sit-‘N-Spin and we worked on manding spin. He was manding for it, but it was barely close to spin. He manded to have the Sit-‘N-Spin spun in front of him and Elizabeth and I worked on Tony making the “SS” sound in spin. Other mands today also included bubbles.

I introduced teaching the names of the animals today which went well. He echoed “dog” and that was about it. However, being the first day, Tony paid attention to the pictures and did really well making the sounds of the animals, especially with cat and cow today.

Tony completely rejected Mr. Potato head today so I didn’t get a lot done with receptives (I did try several times during the session). I did do hand-over hand with touching his “head” “knees” and “toes” and “hair.” And when playing with his dolls he echoed “hair” when he was playing with the dolls hair. He also had some interest in the spare parts today and made verbalized approximations to “finger” and “nose.”

All the motor imitation things Jay came up with on Friday have been great during our past two sessions. Tony really likes being able to try to stand on one foot. I also tried the “open mouth” M.I. and he did it on the first time (such a smart boy).

The new intraverbals that have been introduced are going well too. We did almost all the intraverbals on the list. The new ones we haven’t done before, so no luck with them but he does do “row, row, row your boat” very well.

Last, I just wanted to comment on the puzzle drills with the alphabet and the numbers. He was able to fill in all the numbers in the puzzle and then because he had no trouble with it, I gave him the numbers puzzle and the alphabet puzzle together and mixed random pieces together. Tony had no trouble matching the mixed numbers and letters in the correct puzzle slot.

Also, I wanted to ask Jay about the “hot/cold” adjective tact drill. Elizabeth made a good point at how that would be hard to find 3 diff. exemplars that Tony is familiar with (and without burning him). Like if we used ice as being “cold” do you think he would learn that the ice is called “cold”? Anyway, just thought we could use Jay’s help with this. Thanks!