Mands=31

As soon as I arrived I noticed that Tony has a new Blue’s Clue’s magnet board. Immediately when I asked “who’s that” Tony said “Steve”. I said “Touch Steve’s foot” and Tony grabbed it. He also echoed “clock” and later tacted it, along w/”notebook” and “thinking chair”. He also sang the “Blue’s Clues” song and plopped down in his chair. Tony sang throughout the session. I used Tony’s post-its and drew the letter “A” and asked “what letter is this”. Tony responded “A”. Then I pulled out a box and gave Tony the paper and told him to “put “A” here”. Tony twice threw the paper towards the box (unfortunately the wind kept catching the paper and it wasn’t going in the box so I should have chosen something else). Then I asked Tony if he wanted to go for a walk and he said “walk” so I used hand-over-hand to get him to pull up his socks and then said “push” which he echoed when putting on his shoes. Tony whined a little but I took his magnet “Steve” and praised Tony with it. Tony thought this was funny and clapped. Also, I did hold up a small shoe and a big shoe and said their attributes. I said “Tony, touch the big shoe” and he grabbed it. I only did this once and am not sure if this was simply coincidence. Then he manded for “walk”. Once outside Tony pointed and said “duck”, then pulled me toward them. I asked “what’s that” and Tony said “duck”. Then I asked “what sound does a duck make” and Tony said “quack, quack” a lot. We walked around to the grassy area and I said “Tony, do this” (standing on one foot) and Tony put his hand on the wooden fence and stood on one foot. When it was time to come inside Tony manded for “open DOOR”. He got a “no” for this bc he didn’t do it on the way outside but he got it right the second time. Then Whitney (respite/ABA) and Parker(ABA) showed and we worked in the room together.
In the room Tony was very distracted, moving from one toy to another, but happy and singing. I did the “what color is this” w/different objects but I don’t feel comfortable keeping data on what I did today (w/colors) since I am still unsure as to exactly how you want this done, Jay. I understand that the goal is to get Tony to generalize but I am looking forward to you explaining this more in our training. Sometimes Tony answered correctly, other times not, and then sometimes he simply didn’t want to do the activity. This happened with a few of the activities today. We did have luck with Tony’s magnet book. He tacted the color “black” in the book and when his bowling ball was held up and he was asked “what color is this” he said it again. With the attributes, we did use a big ball, a small ball, and a big and small tube. This is another area in which I feel uncomfortable keeping data bc this is an example of what I did: I presented the balls and said “small ball” while holding the small one and “big ball” while holding the big one. Then I did different things like “touch the big ball” and “throw the small ball”. Tony had a good time throwing the balls. With long and short I used his tubes and told him to “touch the long tube”. Tony snatched it and said “yea” so I think this too was coincidence. I know that we need more examples to teach these attributes so here is another area that I am worried about, Jay. There are many more things that all three of us did together w/Tony that I am leaving out but today was really up/down. Tony was into activities but briefly and not into some activities that he normally enjoys such as the letter puzzle. I look forward to working more with Tony on Friday!