It has been a week since I’ve worked with Tony but despite the lapse Tony was very cooperative and everything moved smoothly. He loves his new work room and even sat and worked at his table. At the table Tony played with his shape sorter and a slinky. We also went through his tact cards and he said an approximation for “turtle”, “dog”, and said “ball” when he saw the objects and I said “what’s this?” Tony also requested the “aah choo” game and filled in the words, along with “wake up” and said “choo choo”.
At the beginning of the session Tony counted numbers, saying most of them clearly as I used the dry erase board. He even ran and got his own marker to write. He mainly scribbled and also did this on his Magna Doodle. We also played with blocks and Tony approximated the colors red, blue, yellow, and green and the shapes triangle and square. With “do this” Tony stomped, rolled and threw balls, jumped, and drummed. He manded “open”, “tickle”, asked to go by saying “bye”, said “all done” when finished eating, and asked for “mama”. We played the “head and shoulders” game and we also pulled out a baby book with pics of kids eating, dressing, etc…and Tony went through the entire book, excited. He made eating sounds when he saw the kid in the high chair and I had him point at the pics of body parts while saying the words.
We also matched cards and 3-D objects, using his rubber lizards and his cards. At first Tony matched with positional prompts before he matched w/out prompts.
Outside Tony stayed on the sidewalk and then went to the park. On the way back to the house he saw two neighbors and waved and yelled “hi” to them. But when they came over and were leaning over him, ogling him, he covered his eyes and waved “bye” before starting to whine a little. So I brought him inside and he was ok.
when we were working in the playroom and it was time to move on to a new activity/toy, I sang the “clean up” song and picked up all the toys that were out and played them in their boxes. Tony would stop what he was doing, come over and pick up things too. At the end of the session when he had pulled his books off of the shelf he cleaned up every book, putting them back on the shelves.
So, Tony matched, tacted some, did well with receptives, needing some physical prompting for “point to”, did a few intraverbals (wake up and aah choo games), and just had amazing interaction with everyone.
When Jill (speech) arrived Tony approximated the “clean up” song, “circle”, “purple”, and “the end”. They also played with face boards in which you place different body parts on the face (like a 2-d Mr. Potato Head) and Tony did this. Today was just a great day and a great start for me in the new playroom. Yippee!!