Santino smiled upon social greet, sustained engagement as he followed line of regard to reach for his backpack. He verbally labeled each number of the keypad code as he pushed each button, supported by phonemic cue for each. Upon entry into his room, he rapidly scanned the activities offered, reached to place the task of choice on his sentence strip and verbalized his request. Support to increase word order and clarity was facilitative. Additional activities presented allowed for expanded sentence form within requests. Natural gesturing to shift attention to pictures in order to utilize pictures as supports for sentence structure and clarity, paired with anticipatory/phonemic carriers continues to be extremely facilitative. Additional activities presented in cycles of 8 focused on facilitation of varied Agent+Action, Action + object sentence forms. Supports to increase use of expanded sentence form to request assistance
( "Help me + action/action sequence") were facilitative as well. Emphasis placed on sentence expansion to move forward from earlier forms (I want help). Periods of imitation cycles (16) were again facilitated following expanded RMT, and HANDLE activities. Strong session today.