Fri 27 Jan 2006
First off, don’t kill me Jay but I forgot to count mands! I can say it was A LOT. Also, Lane, I forgot to try the weighted vest. Uh, I just got so carried away that I went brain dead. OT would like ABA to try the vest on Tony during his sessions for as long as he’ll wear it to see if it will help him. It shouldn’t exceed more than 10min (not that he’ll wear it even close to that time). Something else, many things from the ‘acquisition’ section of Tony’s book need to be moved to ‘maintenance’.
Okay, Today Tony repeated many words from his show as they were being said: Blue’s Clues, ear, mouth, heart, a clue, sounds from the show, and the theme music. Speaking of music, Tony completed intraverbals for all his songs except “Row, Row…” bc we didn’ t get to it. He also did a made up “Up, Down” game (I lifted him up and down and he said the words).Also, Tony performed really well today w/receptives, touching his toes, eyes, spinning around, putting a pencil in a cup, drawing shapes, and touching objects. He also repeated many words w/”say_” such as: notebook, chair, shirt, and teeth. Tony responded well to “what’s this” w/cat, dog, shapes, colors, shoes, and body parts. With “what sound does a monkey make” while holding a pic of a monkey, Tony went “ooh, ooh, ooh”. We also listened to a CD and Tony was stomping and patting his head to “If You’re Happy…”. He also held his finger up to his mouth and made the “shh” sound to a song. Tony tacted many objects and pics independently throughout the session. Matching also went well because Tony completed the shapes and the colors activities w/no problem today. Another excellent day!!
January 28th, 2006 at 9:05 am
It sounds like Tony continues to learn new skills everyday. I apologize for taking awhile to post, but I’ve been traveling conducting consults and trainings this week. Also, I thought we switched websites and I’ve checked the beingtony.com website a few time and didn’t see any new posts. I finally checked back with this blog and saw that I was way behind (and with Tony it doesn’t take long!).
I suggested last time to put on tact “blitz” and according to the blog, he has several tacts in his verbal repetroire. One next step might be to ask him questions about the feature, function, or class of stimuli that he already has exhibited as regular tacts. For example, given a cup ask him “what’s this” (regular tact question), he says cup, C=”great job TOny!! and what do you do with it? (function of cup) Prompt him to say “drink” with echoic prompt, then try to fade echoic later. I would suggest only picking 5 of his most solid tacts and pick one question about the feature, function, or class of these stimuli to focus on. Once he learns this, add another question about each of the 5 stimuli……example of second question, “what color is the cup?”…….which is a feature of this stimulus……this is a more sophisticated language skill (but he appears ready for this)…..Try it out and let me know how it goes.
I’ve got other ideas for the development of intraverbal (beginning conversational) behavior as well, but I’ll wait to add these goals on Thurs.? We are still on for Thurs. (Feb.2) from 1230-230???
Jay