MANDS = 15

Today went really well with Tony. He was very verbal and engaged during all of our activities. My favorite part of today was when Tony was re-enacting the Blue’s Clues song involving ‘thinking’ in the thinking chair. He was singing part of the song and then would plop down in his thinking chair saying “thiiiinnkk” while making the thinking gesture with his fingers up to his face. It was really hilarious.

Other highlights from today included some great improvement with the motor imitation with “touch your belly.” Today was the first day I was able to get him to do it on the first trial. Tony also did really well with the intraverbals today. He completed “handy dandy NOTEBOOK” (although notebook was more of an approximation). Tony also has been able to make an approximation to “scissors” and filled in “You cut with SCISSORS.”

I also followed Jay’s instructions on the color drill. I wasn’t successful today with “red” and “green” but I’m very confident that Tony will pick up identifying colors as quickly as everything else. He really is learning so fast!