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As soon as Parker (ABA) and I arrived Tony manded for “walk”. We went outside and he then saw the ducks and tacted “duck”. He also tacted a neighbor’s dog. However, he didn’t respond to “what sound does a_ make” today with duck or dog. Inside he did do this with a picture of a cow but was prompted to say “cow” to “what’s this”. This was the same with the pictures of a rooster and a pig. Outside Tony manded for “throw” and echoed the word “pinecone” w/an approx. When Tony wanted to throw an object I would withhold it for a moment and say “Tony, grab your_(body part)” using a gestural, and if needed, a physical prompt. On the second try Tony grabbed his foot w/out any prompting. I rewarded him by giving him the object to throw. We worked a lot on receptives w/ body parts while outside. When I said “grab your nose” Tony said “nooo” and turned his head away so I used hand-over-hand then left this one alone until later. I didn’t want to push him too hard and have him upset. We did this later once inside and I still needed physical prompting but he was happy and he said different body parts. He also said the names of clothing then pulled out his dress up game and dressed the paper dolls. We also continued to use two word sentences w/mands (today, “throw stick”, “roll train”, “open door”–he did this last one today without prompt, etc…). Tony has been using “open” universally so we’re trying to teach him some more mands. Today he picked up objects outside, handed them to us and said “open” sometimes before using a different mand. Jay (BCBA), do you think we could start using the word “help” for times when Tony doesn’t have another word (like when he gave us his toy train track pieces and wanted us to put them together) or do you want us to keep coming up w/specific words for mands?
Once inside Tony’s playroom we worked on colors quite a bit bc Tony was calling everything green. I had him tacting and echoing the colors throughout the session. He tacted black and said his other colors but not yellow (or an approx), even w/prompting. We worked again on intraverbals (we did this yesterday but I left it out). We went through all his songs and phrases making sure to do them at a time when there were no visual cues. For example, I said “you cut with_” while coloring and Tony responded “scissors”. We did “you color with a _” and Tony said “crayon” while playing later. Also, we played with Mrs. Potato Head and I asked “where does the_ go” and Tony would place the body parts in the correct places. I also had Tony make her jump and wave her arm. Jay, would you like me to say “do this” and have Tony wave her arm after watching me or do you want me to say something like “wave Mrs. Potato Head’s arm” and wave it? I’ve been doing some of everything. We also colored and Tony tacted “moon” and some letters. He also tacted pictures of numbers and his books (objects). We worked on big/little with his books and I would say “open the little book” and then we’d look through it. With loud/quiet we used the volume for the songs on his trampoline. Tony echoed “quiet” and “loud” (approx). When he was banging on his wire rack he said “loud” and then stopped and whispered “shh, quiet”. We played with a car today and worked on the mand for “stop” and “go” and Tony did both of these. Tony also independently held his sippy cup to Parker’s mouth and said “drink”. She said “no thank you” and he went back to playing. Tony’s worked long and hard both today and yesterday–good ending to the week!