Santino was greeted as he finished his session with Dorothy. She reported he was having a good day. He transitioned well to the table. He reportedly did not eat the yogurt that was offered. When SLP gave choice of yogurt and vanilla pudding, Santino verbally requested the pudding. He assisted with opening the pudding and placing the spoon in the cup without aversion. His visually attention has increased to the food. Santino requested to build train tracks. During that activity, he refused pudding from spoon, however tapped to his lips off SLP's finger 20x with minimal aversion, in fact - he leaned into therapist for additional "taps" to lips. He licked his lips to taste the pudding 15/20 opportunities. There was no grimace or gag with that. With cues and pause time, Santino successfully opened his mouth for pudding 3/10 times. There was less refusal and turning away with the pudding. When the spoon was re-introduced, Santino became upset indicating it was too challenging of a task for him. He assisted in clean-up with the pudding. With Chips Ahoy Grips (very small chocolate chip cookie pieces), he counted them sustaining visual attention and touched them with ease. He assisted in making them into crumbs. Without refusal, he "tapped to lips" 5x while licking off the crumbs. It was the end of the sessions and with prompting of "one more, then all done" - Santino opened his mouth for cookie crumbs. He grimaced while manipulating the crumbs but did not become upset. He laughed and had a great session. Throughout session, he was using increased verbal utterances to request his wants/needs. SLP provided verbal cues for "help" and "all done". He worked hard for tickles and train tracks. His relationship with food continues to be less guarded and more positive. I'm very proud of this session, he is doing great!