Mands: 19

This morning after ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘Elmo’s World’ Tony manded for “down” and “all done.” We eplored the kitchen and living room briefly before heading straight into his room without a walk. Tony colored with the extra smooth crayons in a notebook. I attempted to introduce some dolls by making them jump into the shopping cart (currently filled with balls.) He really liked this and eventually had all the dolls in the cart and was shreiking with excitement and joy. I of course tried some motor imitation, but clapping the dolls’ hands and kicking their feet just couldn’t compete with jumping in the balls.

This afternoon’s session was somewhat productive. Tony jumped on his trampoline with the dyum de de dede dum dum song playing continually in the background. Then he got out his sit and spin and made it spin and then stop, manding “go” and “stop,” unfortunately he’d already gotten a no response for ‘go’ during our walk. He played with the magnets on the red door, tacting “Steve,” “clock,” “thinking chair,” and “blue’s clues.” Then he grabbed an orange crayon and his handy dandy notebook and sat in his thinking chair. Sometimes he likes to pretend he’s Steve or Joe. He moved from one activity to the next quickly while we were in his room. The next activity was pouring the foam letters, animals, and numbers from one measuring cup to the next, which required a mand from him for me to ‘aben’ the red container in which these objects were residing. I snuck Mr. Potatohead into the picture, saying “Hi, I’m Mr. Potatohead, put my ARMS IN the CUP!” He gave no response, so we did it hand over hand. He returned his gaze to the foam objects and I put Mr. Potatohead’s parts into the measuring cup he wasn’t using. I asked Tony to put Potatohead’s mouth on, again, we had to resort to hand over hand, but he did successfully attach the nose before becoming upset and wanting to get rid of Potatohead.