Mon 27 Feb 2006
I was in a hurry for work and just wanted to add a few things to today’s ABA session. First, Mands=45. Tony is starting to grasp attributes and he responded when I held up his tiny ball and asked if it was big or little with an approx for “little”. With loud/quiet Tony actually requested “loud” and turned up the volume. With long/short Tony is having difficulty. I am going to try using clearer examples (than his tubes or play-doh rolled into long/short pieces, which is what I’m using so far). And, Tony is getting better with his motor imitation/receptives. Today he completed one objective with only the SD on the first attempt. Also, even if we (Parker,ABA) use a gestural prompt to get Tony to complete an activity, we can try it again later in the session and sometimes have luck w/out prompting. Starting off w/the visual connection seems to be helping Tony grasp the SD. When it comes to asking him to grab/show me a part on his face such as his nose or mouth he sometimes says “noo” and turns away his head. I think that I already wrote this but he did it again so I thought that I’d make note. We have better luck with other body parts. Tony also played well w/Mr. Potato Head, making him jump, sit in his chair, and wave his arm. Tony is doing well with putting two words together with his mands and also said “help” today. He is also whizzing through his intraverbals. Lastly, Tony’s vocab continues to expand, echoing some new words today such as “clown” (approx) while looking through his books. He was really answering well to “what’s this” and was asking us w/an approx “what’s that”. Good day!