Santino was seen for session 44 of 45 with this SLP in the individual classroom and appeared pleasant and calm upon transition between sessions. The daily, visual schedule was referenced and reviewed...Goals for the session remained consistent and included the following...1. to engage in forming a relationship with Santino that includes regulation, and shared attention and interest 2. to enter into two-way, purposeful interactions with gestures and intentional communication 3. to determine highly motivating/favorable, cause and effect activities, so that Santino may develop a feeling of control and predict/anticipate what will happen next 4. to imitate predictable action sequences and communication patterns through cause and effect activities 5. to develop single-word requesting via eye-gaze, picture exchange and/or verbalization...Santino requested "Pop! The Pig" via verbal request ("Pop Pig") from the activities in this SLP's bag. The photo of his request was added to the sentence strip on the communication book and referenced by Santino. Independent of direction, Santino removed the strip, handed it to this SLP and verbalized "I - Want - Pop! The Pig" paired with pointing to each element of the sentence. His request was immediately validated. Santino removed the "Pig" from box independently, but appeared to have some difficulty removing all of the "Hamburgers" from the storage compartment inside the "Pig". The "Help" picture was referenced by this SLP and placed on the sentence strip by Santino who pointed to each component of the sentence paired with the verbalization: "I - Want - Help". His request was immediately validated and the remaining "Hamburgers" were removed from the compartment by SLP. As in the previous session, Santino requested "Hamburger", added it to the strip, then removed and presented it to this SLP followed by pointing to all elements of the sentence paired with the verbalization: "I - Want - Hamburger". When asked, "What Color?", Santino opened his communication book, located the "Colors" page, selected "Yellow", added it to the sentence strip, then removed and presented it to this SLP paired with point and the verbalization: "I - Want - Yellow - Hamburger". His request was immediately validated...This exchange of two-way, purposeful interaction with intentional communication continued INDEPENDENT OF PROMPTS/CUES for 15 of 15 opportunities over 35 minutes. Additional verbalization paired with communication intent was noted from time to time and included the following: "Pink Nose", "Hat", "Puffy Belly", "Spatula" - in reference to the pig -. Santino verbalized number words correctly for 9 out of 16 opportunities to completed the phrase initiated by this SLP, "Hamburger Number...???". In addition, "Did Pig/He Pop?" was posed after each turn as Santino was directed to the "Yes"/"No" pictures on the communication strip. This SLP modeled the responses..."All Done" or "More" "Pop! The Pig?" was referenced and verbalized by this SLP. Santino requested and verbalized, "All Done Pop the Pig", independent of prompts/cues as he followed the sequence noted previously then participated in clean-up of the activity...Santino took a break for approximately one-minute then referenced and requested the book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" via the sentence strip paired with the verbalization: "I want Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See." Santino followed the predictable sequence, tracking all words and reading all text for the entire book...The session came to a close in the usual manner with clean-up, the "Good-Bye" Song, and successfull photo exchange on his daily, visual schedule in preparation for dismissal. Continue as planned...