MANDS = 14

Today Tony was very hyper and very excited. We didn’t finish an entire session today (speech came after about 45 minutes) but we did get through a lot of mands, animals, and colors. Tony echoed “door” again today for “open door” and also echoed “play-dough.” Tony sometimes will say “squeeze” when requesting play-dough, so I’m excited that Tony has started to echo ‘play-dough.”

Tony did really well with the animals today. He was very eager to get started with the speaking puzzle game with animals. He tacted “sheep” on the first time and echoed most of the other animals. He also got a “yes” with making the noise for cat.

For motor imitation, we only worked with his dolls. He didn’t want to make the dolls do much else other than “jump” today but again, I think it had a lot to do with his hightened energy level (he seemed distracted). We did however work on putting the dolls in his shopping cart and “pushing” the cart with them in it.

We worked on colors as well today. While Tony was stacking his blocks again I blocked the access again and Tony manded for “block” (which I haven’t heard in awhile). After i prompted “what color do you want?” Tony didn’t ask for a color so I prompted with “Do you want red?” and offered him a red block. Before I let him have it I said “Say red.” Tony echoed “red” after this and continued stacking. We did this for all the target colors (except for black). I got Tony to at least echo all the colors of the blocks (which was good because it was paired with a visual stimulus). We also worked on his magnetic coloring book. Tony readily picked out the black wheel magnets and put them in their correct place on the “black” page. He also did this with other magnets in the book with no prompting.

For intraverbals Tony got “handy dandy NOTEBOOK” on the first time. Tony was very interested in his books today and was having a great time with his Sesame Street book that had flaps. At one point when we were looking at the book, Tony flipped open a tab and saw a picture of cookies and clearly said “COOKIES!” It was so clear it totally blew me away. I also noticed that his “clean up” song sounds a lot more clear. Today it sounded like he was really making the “cl” sound in clean-up.

So today was decent considering the fact Tony was so hyper. I’m very happy about the improvements he is making.