Today was our meeting with Jay again to review Tony’s program. We made a few adjustments to the program including taking away some of the colors we had targeted. We decided to stick just to primary colors and black (since Tony is already tacting black). Jay also decided to take away some of the adjective drills we were going to work on. The adjectives that we are going to work on now are “big/little” and “long/short.” We practiced how to present these things as well as different SDs. We also changed the receptive activities that we are working on with Mr. Potato Head. Since Tony has not been responding positively to “touch (body part)” we altered it to putting Mr. Potato Head’s parts in a specific place or asking “where does his nose go?” We were all in agreement that Tony would respond better to this.

Another great thing that happened at the meeting was having Jay interact with Tony in his playroom. This was so that he can have a better understanding of Tony’s abilities and how all of the ABA therapists are working with him. He gave us some tips on redirecting Tony and clarified how to present teaching colors. Jay also decided to add some imaginitive play to the program. Tony really enjoys playing with his dolls and puppets and has really taken off with engaging in imaginitive play lately.

I think today was very productive. I am so glad Jay was finally able to get to spend some time one-on-one with Tony. Hopefully this will be a routine on every visit. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow to test out some of the new changes in the program.