Johnny Session 1

Everything went well today with Johnny. His behaviour and engagement were awesome!! There was no fussing. I did quite a few programs with him

Receptive instruction (RI)- He has to listen to my instruction ie "stand up", "turn around" and "sit down". He has already mastered both "stand up" and "turn around" so i'm teaching him "sit down", in fact i think that he can do pretty well with sitting down. He should have no problem mastering it in few more sessions.

As for play, I'm teaching him to kick the ball into the goal post and roll snake using the playdoh. He was grat at kicking ball into the goal. For playdoh, he tends to play it the wrong way (as in not regular kid would play). He just pressed the playdoh and that's it. So i'm teaching him to roll it into snake. He seems to understand rolling it as he was able to it by himself after a few prompted trials.

Verbal Imitation (VI)- This is a program which he has great difficulty. As he cant speak now, I'm teaching to make some sound. He is able to make "Baa" and "Aaa" but "Eee" is really hard for him and he oftens get fustrated when he couldnt make the "Eee" sound. But the good thing is that i know that he's trying and i believe that he'll definitely make the sound one day. I need to be patient=)

Matching- This is something that he is really good at. I'm teaching him now to match the word to the picture ie the word "bicycle" to the picture "bicycle". He already can match "apple", "chips", "strawberry" and "cap"

Receptive Label (RL)- This is the next step after matching. He has to know the name of the objects. This is actually a form of building his vocabulary. He's quite good with this too (In fact, i believe that ASD kids are actually as smart as regular kids however the only problem is that they lack the social and communication skill to communicate with us).

So as you can see, Johnny is really improving and everytime i saw him smile, it really light up my life too=) Tomorrow i'm going to have session with Nick and Ivan, hope that i'll be enjoying the session just like today.