Mon 2 Jan 2006
With today being gray and wet, Tony slept in late then spent a rather long time eating. But he independently said many words. Tony picked up a puzzle piece shaped like the sun and said “sun”, then he tacted the color “purple” while working on another puzzle. Tony saw a picture of a rooster and said “cockadoo”, then made the sounds “meow, meow”, “mooo”, and a barking sound when he saw pics of a cow, dog, cat, etc…on his sound puzzle. He said “dog”, “cat”, and a sound for “rooster”. With “do this”, I tried to get Tony to draw a line but he just scribbled a lot. He tacted some of the alphabet letters. When watching tv he tried to make many sounds or said words from the show. The entire time Tony was “speaking” to everyone and he’s really trying to say the words correctly. Some of his speech is even really clear. And of course Tony manded for “open”, “bye”, and “all done”. When he was hungry he said and signed “more” but also put his hand to his mouth to make the sign for “eat”. We did some receptives w/”touch the” and “point to” and I used physical prompting w/both. On the 3rd attempt Tony was doing these w/out prompting. We also cleaned up to the “clean up” song. This was it today. I didn’t get to work w/Tony very long at all before he went back to sleep.