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Tony’s verbal repetoire continues to move along. He’s echoing to “say_” well and said “cloud”, “bus”, “train”, an approx for “paper” (pape). And, as you can see, Tony manded a lot today, such as “throw”, “roll”, “crayon”, “blow”, and we worked on putting two words (ex, “roll train” and “blow bubble”) together since I saw that Jill is doing this. Outside we spent a lot of time working on the receptives with “do this” and “grab your_(body part)”. Tony responded to “do this” with the clapping and stomping and putting his hand to his cheek. With “grab your hand” while pairing a gestural prompt with the SD Tony completed this by grabbing his hand on the first attempt. For the other body parts Tony needed physical prompting but did label his body parts independently. He also saw the ducks outside and said “duck” and quacked. He manded to throw objects into the pond and wanted to go to the water so we (Parker, ABA, also working w/me) redirected him by walking somewhere new. Tony was really fixated on the water though and anytime we came across a puddle Tony wanted to put his hands in it and throw objects into it.
Once inside the therapy room Tony manded for “crayon” and it wasn’t an approx. He’s really enunciating his words more clearly. We colored and Tony independently drew a circle and tacted it. He also tacted alphabet letters. He manded for “draw”, “color”, and “crayon” quite a bit. Tony also manded for “book” and pulled out his magnetic one and placed the objects in the correct spots to “where does the_go?” With color tacts Tony labeled the colors incorrectly except for “green”. He did say “red” correctly but before I asked “what color is this” and when I did ask he said nothing and was prompted. He was prompted “say_” to all the colors except green and we didn’t work on black. I really need to mention this, too. Tony took three blocks and built a house then said “how” (approx for house) and did this several times. Marlaina (mom) said that she has been playing with Tony, building homes with his different blocks and apparently he’s learned it.
We worked on the attributes hot/cold, long/short, hard/soft, loud/quiet, and big/little. For hot and cold I brought a frozen potato and a microwaved one. Tony tacted “hot” correctly and echoed very well “cold”. Unfortunately the temps of the potatoes seemed to freak him out a little whenever he touched them. For long and short I used his play-doh (he echoed the word) and rolled it into two pieces of different lengths. I letting Tony do things with the two pieces like roll them and tap them while saying there attributes. I need more examples for this, along with hard/soft. We worked on this by simply touching different objects and saying their attributes. With loud and quiet I yelled “loud” loudly while getting Tony to echo it and whispered “quiet” and made the gesture for “shh”. Tony whispered but didn’t echo the word. He did well w/big and little by throwing the little ball. Other things Tony did was play w/Mrs. Potato Head (new one) and performed a couple of actions with the body parts such as “put the ear in the box”. Tony played with his dress up game, too, and tacted some of the clothing. He had fun making his dolls spin, bounce, kicked, and other activities. We didn’t have a lot of luck with tacting animals or their sounds today. Tony responded to a couple such as “duck” but he did echo the names and sounds. Lastly, Lane, Tony wore his weighted vest several times for a few seconds each. He held out his arms each time so I slid it on him. Then we he said “all done”, I removed the vest. At first Tony was a little distracted and outside he was really fixated on the water. But despite these things, Tony was responsive and I’m pleased that he did the “grab your_” with the gestural prompt bc pairing the visual prompt with the verbal SD seemed to work. I also tried this later with just the SD but had to use the gestural. We will work on this until we can fade the prompt. Good day!