Today was a rather quick day for Tony. He went down for a nap after his speech session at 1:00. Parker worked with Tony for most of the morning on receptives, intraverbals and motor imitation. Tony is really coming along with the feature/function/class receptive activities.

Tony had lots of requests for various activities during play such as “I want paints” and “I want puzzle.” We’ve been directing Tony to clean-up what we’ve been playing with first, and then moving on to the next chosen activity. He’s pretty solid with “all done ___” and “I want ___.” We’ve had to do minimal prompting for this lately.

I have been using the vibrating ball with Tony to teach targeted body parts like “leg” “back” and “arm.” The ball is very reinforcing for him. I usually prompt him to mand for a specific body part he would like to have vibrated. Today he repeated “ack” for back. I used some of Jill’s advise and prompted, “Can you say B-b-b?” Tony finally gave me a pretty clear “back” and then collapsed into giggles on the floor. Learning really can be fun!

This ends our session for today. Tony was ready for “night, night” right after she left. See you tomorrow Tony!