Mon 13 Feb 2006
I’m posting this for the sole purpose of asking Jay a few questions about some of the new drills.
1) I wanted to know what the exact SD is for the drill on colors. We didn’t write it down during our last meeting, but to my memory I thought it was “What color is this?” I know we are doing 3 different exemplars for the colors, but what steps of presentation do we need to take before asking him the question. For example, should we just be able to put out 3 different red things and ask “What color is this?” I’m not sure if it would be easier for you to explain it through posting, or we should practice it next Monday (or both). I want to practice the adjectives drill too (just to make sure we’re all doing it right).
2) Since our last meeting, Tony has gotten 3 sequential “yeses” with the puzzle activity (ABC and numbers). I have mixed up all the numbers and letters in both the puzzles and Tony has been able to finish them both unmprompted very quickly. I thought maybe we could do some matching with colors or Elizabeth suggested animals. What do you think?
OK, I think that’s it for now. Let us know what you think when you have time to post. Thanks!
February 13th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Good questions! With colors, let’s say you have three different exemplars of red (red ball, red cup, & red book). These stimuli might be mixed in with their correspondants of a different color (e.g., blue). Pick up the red ball and present Sd+ “What color is this?”, TOny responds correctly or an error correction procedure is utilized via echoic. Then, pick up another red stimulus and asked “what color is this?” and so on until he is responding fluently (correct & fast) on all three, then move to blue (or you could try to teach two colors at a time by picking up one red one, one blue one, one red one, etc.)……We can practice this next Monday as well.
That’s great about numbers and letters. Is he tacting these as he puts them in the puzzle? “A” “B” “C”, etc. Can he generalize? (e.g., identify other “A’s”, B’s” that are drawn by hand). Would he be able to pick a letter/number out of the array and perform and action with it? (e.g., hand it to Mom, put it in the tent, etc.). We could head in any number of directions with this, so try to find out some answers to these questions and we will discuss further on Monday.
Also, I want to hear all about this Freeze your toes thing with VW! I didn’t even drive mine this weekend because of the cold! so you guys are pretty brave…..
Jay