Well, somebody thought that the party was still going! Okay, so Tony was a tad hyper but after going outside and running off some of his energy he calmed. Outside Tony did some “do this” with stomping and drumming. He was touching everything and making the sounds for “what’s this”. Tony saw a little boy and ran up to him and said “hi” but the boy was shy and ran into his yard. Tony then followed the boy and kept saying “hi” and waving but the boy slammed the fence on him and growled at Tony. So much for encouraging social interaction!
Inside Tony tacted to “what’s this” the pictures, “cat”, “duck”, “ball”, and “dog”. He didn’t tact “grass” or “turtle” but I took the grass pic outside and worked with it out there. Tony did very well with matching his cards. At first when I said “let’s do some matching” while holding the cards Tony said “no!”. But I said “yes” and then went matched sets of three objects a couple of times. Tony has been saying “no” a lot when he doesn’t want to do something but it’s easy to redirect him and he does listen well. Today Tony requested “milk” w/an approximation-another mand! He also tacted with a sound for “broom” and then picked up the broom. He also tried sweeping while his mom with holding a broom. We also did some more “do this” with rolling a ball and drawing a line on his dry erase board. He did this and counted the lines. Also I said “put here” with his floor puzzle and he put the pieces in the right place. We also did “touch the” with a tree outside and with his picture cards. In the beginning of the session I really had to chase Tony around to get him to do things but after being outside he was calm and cooperative. Also, Tony manded “open” and asked for “da da”. He also request “tv” when he wanted the volume on. He whined and I said “say tv”. He said it and approximated it until I turned up the volume. We also worked on “eat” and “cup” but Tony signed and said “more” when he wanted to eat. He whined a little for his cup but we still said “cup” before he got it. When he was holding his vibrating ball he copied his dad, shaking his head and making a vibrating sound with his mouth. It was pretty funny. Tony requested “tickle”, “jump”, “ahh choo”, and “ahh boom” and we played the “head, shoulders, knees…game” w/me saying “touch head, etc” and having him touch the different body parts. He also tacted the colors “red” and “blue”. He said “uh oh” if he dropped something or “yea” if someone told him he couldn’t have something (it’s clearer than before). Wow, even on his hyper days Tony is still so amazing. It is really hard to remember everything that he does. Tony worked well with Jill, playing with playdoh, tacting colors and saying words and sounds, and doing other things. Tony is really social with everyone too, continuing to make great contact and looking and babbling at people in the room when he sees or does something.