Mands: 19

Tony was easily upset today. He had lots of diarrhea and has been up since six, both contributing factors. This morning he became extremely perturbed when his mand for a car ride remained unfulfilled. His screaming and crying was unrelentless, so Marlaina took him to get some hash browns at Chick-Fil-A (too early for french fries). While they were gone I gave our newest addition to the program, Danielle, a crash course in ABA. We still have yet to get through all of the current objectives with Tony, but I can at least explain them in theory. When they got back Marlaina wanted to give Tony some relaxation time, so he watched one of the DVD’s he is interested in this month. I took Danielle out for a short walk to see the boundaries of this subdivision. When we got back we prepared the wagon for a ride, but alas, today was not meant for a wagon ride.

Tony manded for sandbox, so we took him outside and opened the sandbox. After only a couple of minutes he lost interest and manded for a walk, so we granted his wish. Tony ran freely in the grass before manding several times for me (or maybe us) to go. His ‘go’ has lost some of its clarity, so I worked on reforming it echoically. Once we got to the other side of the courtyard Tony returned to the scene of the crime (where he scraped his nose and forhead yesterday) I held his hand as I’d attempted to do yesterday. He did everything in his power to escape my grip short of biting or hitting me. He squirmed, wiggled, cried, and even threw himself onto the hard concrete, but I would not let go. we walked back and forth a few times and then I decided to just pick him up and walk somewhwere else, far away from this place. By the time we got to the patch of grass near the pond and basketball courts he was manding for turtle/ cup and house. We brought him home and even got him to interject an ‘and’ into his mand.

In his room we got some intraverbals done, and during his second trip to the sandbox we tried the receptives with the letters and sounds unsuccessfully (sp?). We have his Wiggles backpack filled with items necessary for a mobile ABA session, so during a walk or wagon ride we will be prepared.