Today was our day to meet with Jay again to review the program and Tony’s progress. Jay also brought along his associate, Terry to the meeting. Unfortunately Parker could not join us because she had to go out of town suddenly. During the meeting we discussed the data collection and Jay suggested we change from the cold probe data to collecting data on each trial. This will give us all a better idea of Tony’s abilities and weaknesses.

In addition to changing the data collection, we also added a few intraverbals including ‘we ride in a “car,”‘ ‘we listen to music,” and “your name is “Tony.”‘ For mands, we added “roll ball” and also different food items (chips, chicken, waffle). Jay explained how to present the food items in a set of three or four with two or three preferred and one non-preferred food item (we will start with presenting only two though). We will only put a small taste of each food on his tray at a time to avoid satiation. The idea is that Tony will choose his favorite food out of the group and will have to mand for more using the name of the food.

Everything else in the program is staying as it is for now. I’m excited to start on working on the food. Tony learned how to say “pasta” in one sitting, so hopefully learning others will be just as easy for him.