Surprise…I made it back to the blog!! It’s great to hear and see all of the progress Tony is making. We have been working on two-word combinations pretty aggressively. I have been using a mixture of word combinations just because Tony seems to pick up on these things pretty quickly. We have been using subject+verb,verb+subject,noun+please,and phrases like “my turn”. At this point I am modeling word for word with Tony imitating one word at a time. Occasionally he will imitate both words together. Some examples…”give _____”, “roll ball”, “Tony/baby/etc. spin”. Another thing that I started addressing this week is Tony’s grabbing of objects. I have encouragaed (some hand over hand) him to extend an open hand (palm up) and let me hand the object to him vs. him snatching something from my hand. I’ve not been consistent in pairing a verbal command with this, but typically saying “be gentle”. Any thoughts? I don’t think I mentioned this to any of you this week. Anywho…hope you are having a great night/morning. I’ll see you between 12:45 and 1.