Santino came in from playing outdoors and initially laid on the floor. I thought he might be tired, but when he saw my open bag, he grew interested, and examined some items in it. He closely examined a clementine orange, but when I offered it to him and began to peel it, he turned away. However, when he saw my cell phone, Santino picked it out of my bag and handed it to me. I held it from him and repeated the word 'please,' indicating to him that he needed to say the word to obtain the item. After repeatedly doing so, but pulling my hand away if he just reached for the phone without uttering the word, he said what appeared to be a reasonable approximation to it. I handed him the phone, opened an app, and he was clearly happy with the outcome. This is done in the hopes that he will understood the connection between the word, object, expectations, and contingenices. I began playing a shape and color song, and Santino selected a story about pigs which we had viewed the other day. I brought him a puzzle with farm animals and asked him to show me the pig; he did so. Santino replayed the story several times, occassionally verbalizing some of the words and phrases he heard. He received high fives and thumbs up for imitating speech. We concluded the session with a hand-washing activity and Santino accompanied me back to the classroom to begin his next session.