Santino was greeted by SLP, he appeared happy upon transition. SLP and Santino walked to fridge where the new food was. Given the choice of 3, Santino chose the vanilla pudding. SLP provided an additional choice of yogurt in a pouch. With the vanilla pudding, Santino immediately began to self feed with visual cues to initiate prior to participating in letter/spelling activity. Santino continues to take small bites from spoon. He consumed approximately 1/2 the container (approximately 2 ounces). When given a water bottle, he pushed it away. With hand over hand assist, he took 2 small sips of water without aversion. When transitioning to yogurt pouch, Santino assisted in opening the yogurt. SLP modeled smelling it, and he appeared to enjoy that as he laughed and smelled the yogurt 3/5. When told to "tap to lips", he leaned toward 1/5 opportunities. SLP squeezed small amount on lips - there was no attempt to lick off despite modeling to lick off lips. When SLP showed Santino it was yogurt by squeezing it on a spoon, he became more aversive. He started whining and hiding his face. He assisted in clean up with the yogurt task. When given the choice of apple jacks and chocolate chip cookie gripz, he batted both away and turned away. SLP chose apple jacks in efforts to interact with the food without aversion. SLP began taking them out of the bag as Santino assisted in counting. Visual attention increased with this task. SLP was tapping and labeling body parts and Santino appeared calm and enjoyed it - "knee, elbow, shoulder, nose, lips" 5x. Each time resulting in tapping the food to his lips without aversion. He did lick his lips 1x. He assisted in clean up calmly.

At this point in time, he appears more aversive to solid/crunchy food. We will continue to explore these foods in efforts to desensitize him. I'm glad he's carrying over other yogurts and puddings.