MANDS = 14 (I only counted during the morning for about a half hour)

Today was an excellent day with Tony. I was eager to see how Tony would respond to some of the recent changes we made. I didn’t come early enough to try the food today but we did get through almost everything else. We used the talking mic toy to practice the new intraverbals which Tony really enjoyed. He’s already making approximations to “music” and “Tony.”

We took several long walks outside today and we did a lot of motor imitation. He was responding better today than he has for the past few weeks. He also really enjoyed the dolls today which he has had little interest in lately. We did some new imitations like “flip” with the dolls and “shake.” Tony also made the dolls dance and hug together.

We also practiced a lot with colors today. I did work receptively and also asked Tony to tact different colors. This is the activity I see the most benefit from with the new data collection. I think he’s finally starting to understand the “SD” better of “What color is this?” (I didn’t get green as a response as much).

I used a book full of animal pictures in it to go over tacting animals and sounds. We decided to switch away from using the sound-making animal puzzle (we think he’s getting satiated with it). I believe I see animal puppets in the near future…

So today was a good day with Tony. I think the glutens are finally tapering off!!! Hooorray!