Today was my first day back after a very long holiday break. Tony’s behavior has definitely improved in every way. His eye contact is better and he’s so verbal! His echoics have shot up and as well as his tacts (as everyone has already told me). Jill came early and worked with him and after Tony ate I got to take over. Although I only got about 1/2 hour in before it was 1:00 nap time Tony did a lot of good stuff. We took a walk to start off with and Tony was all about looking and touching and tacting everything! Tony even braved walking up to a cat and touching. After I said, “Is that a cat Tony?” He looked at me and said “cat!” We continued the walk and Tony picked up sticks asking “Whassis?” I said “sticks” and said “sticks.” He also tacted “tree” as well. I did “do this” with the running and Tony responded the first time. He made the sign for “all done” after we ran around for a bit and then we headed back to his room to play some more. We only had a little time, but in that time we worked tacting animals and making the animal noises. Tony especially liked making the monkey noises. I worked with play dough since Tony was reaching for it. I worked on “squeeze” and “roll it” and then did MTS with the colors of play dough and their lids. Tony tacted all the colors perfectly (green, blue and red). He actually kept repeating the colors while we were doing other things and pointing to them. Our time was up before I even knew and Tony was off to bed. Even though it wasn’t a complete session, I was impressed with all the progress Tony has made since I’ve last seen him. Go Tony!