NO DATA ON MANDS TODAY (Bad day…sorry, Jay!)

Today Tony was slightly cranky so needless to say he was difficult to be redirected and we didn’t get through all the activities (he had a nightmare last night). I let him take the lead with everything during therapy and I got him back on track with tacting letters, numbers, shapes and even got him to tact different colors (approximations to red, blue, green, yellow and orange). When we were drawing, Tony kept wanting to grab handfuls of crayons. He made an approximation to crayon and I immediately opened the box and let him take one out. I then closed it until he manded “open” and I let him take another crayon out and tacted the color as he took it. Later, when we were drawing I drew different shapes and he successfully made approximations to diamond and triangle (triangle sounds more angle) in addition to sounding out heart, square, circle and star. He kept trying to grab the bigger crayons I was using and I got him to tact the color of the crayon before I gave it to him which seemed to work out really well (he even tried to do yellow!). We also played with a new game that involved dress-up people. You can peel off articles of clothing that stick to the pictures of people. Tony did great echoing “glasses” and “hat” (for hat it was a tact and later an echoic as well). He put all the articles of clothing on in the right place and his favorite part seemed to be the shoes. After playing with this for awhile he was laughing at himself for putting the wrong articles on the face of the people! He would put the shoe on their face and then look at me and laugh (even though he knew where the shoe went before). He’s really funny sometimes! He was also doing some matching 2-D to 3-D by putting the picture of the hat on his head and also on my head.

So, we didn’t do a lot today since he was cranky and irritable (even for Jill during speech!). Even though we didn’t get to everything, I was still able to get a little out of him.