Mands: 20

Alright, a better day for our little Tony today! We played in his room with the house and Alphabet floor puzzle when I first arrived. When we went back in the living room to retrieve turtle and cup he noticed that one of his favorite shows, “The Wiggles” was on. He was excited and interested, so we stayed and watched. He usually does watch this show, so it didn’t throw us off schedule or anything — he just headed for his room earlier this time. We have slightly changed the schedule (by 15 minutes and a switch of people.) He is doing fine with the earlier time.

In today’s episode of the Wiggles there were children (the little Wiggles) running back and forth in a room. Tony mimicked this action. The show has alot of dancing and singing, and you are supposed to do what the characters do. Soon they were dancing again, and Tony tried that too.

We played in his room with some more toys and tried some intraverbals. Tony wasn’t very into them, but he wasn’t getting upset about it or trying to escape the activity. I got him to respond to some of them echoically and it was slightly saddening since he definitely knows some of the things and he wasn’t answering. Oh well, at least he wasn’t negative. We painted again and he did a good job with “I want ______(color.)” Again he manded for green, orange, and purple and again I dipped his fingers in the necessary primary colors and helped him mix them on the paper. Once he gets blue, red, yellow, purple, orange, and green on the paper he is “all done” and he says “bye-bye yellow” and so on. Today I had him put one of the paint jars away on the windowsill and say ‘windowsill’ echoically. He certainly tried.

Before long it was time for a walk. Tony manded ‘walk,’ ‘over,’ ‘shoes,’ and ‘open door.’ We had a nice walk. His favorite part was when he was swinging in the hammock and I tickled his feet and tummy. After the walk we went back in the room for a little while and did some receptives while we played with some legos. I tried slipping in an intraverbal we hadn’t gotten to earlier and it backfired . . . “We watch a _____ show” gave him a sudden yearning to actually watch one, so we did. Then he manded for ‘car ride’ and we were able to reinforce.

After the car ride he ate some french fries that his Dad made and drank some juice. We went into his room and tried some more ABA. Today and yesterday we have been much more (ABA) productive in the afternoon. Now he is taking a nap to get ready for Britney.