Module 3: Attention and tokens:
It has been difficult to hold the attention of Jake. Knowing that motivation and decreased interferance could help us, I talked to mom and found that he likes Mickey Mouse. We were able to locate some Mickey Mouse Dominos and use them as a token system. The goal of today's intervention was to build sentences verbally using words. Each word he produced verbally would yield one MM domino. If he completed 10 words, he could change in his tokens and play a board game. The Mickey Mouse dominos motivated him to say an 8 word sentence by the end of the tx session, and we played the board game.
Interference:
not wanting to watch her son struggle, mom would always interject and prompt Jake on what to say, or how to repsond. Politely we asked mom to hold back on her interjections and see how he performs for the entire session. Her compliance, although not 100%, was satisfactory.
Interference:
What a great session that may have been. Good pick up on the interference by mom and asking her to hold back. Not only will you see what Jake is able to do/having trouble doing, it will help the mom see what he is capapble of doing as you increase the expectations. I had a mom just yesterday say she always likes sitting in on our sessions and watching, because I often ask of her daughter things that she would not and/or give her the extra time to respond before prompting/asking her the same thing over and over. Can't wait to hear how things go! - joan
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