Doing Tasks At Her Table

Wednesday, Jennifer conducted the majority of her session with Raquel sitting at her table. And Raquel really seems to enjoy it and is scoring very well!

Here she is picking out Gabby during familiar people.

And choosing between pictures or the spinning tops. This is called Manding for Reinforcers.

She chose the tops - which continue to be one of her very favorite items in the box.

Today Raquel had physical therapy at the mall. This was the first time I was able to observe her with her replacement PT. She seemed to take to Jan very well. When I took her out of the stroller, Jan asked me to walk around the area holding her to get her used to the environment. After a few minutes, I sat down on one of the benches and put her down. She stood there holding my legs for a minute or two, then both Jan and I took one hand and slowly started walking with her. Then I let go and watched them walk for a few minutes. In no time, she was off and playing. She was crawling through tunnels chasing other kids and going up steps and sliding down with Jan holding one hand. Jan seems to think that she is doing wonderful and just needs to have more practice in unfamiliar areas. She said that the time it takes to warm up will slowly start to decrease as her confidence builds. Next week we will go back to the park.

Raquel had an awesome session today with Cari - by far the best they've ever had. Again, she's now doing most of her tasks at the table and I was amazed at how many trials she was doing without any kind of behaviors. And she was talking up a storm and laughing throughout the entire session. Great news - especially considering she had PT earlier and again, no nap.

Monday she has an early speech session and then Mary will be overlapping for her ABA session with Cari.