Santino continues to work on greeting me with a hug, embracing his arms around me as I kneel to be eye-level with him and afford him minimal physical and verbal prompts. He has been doing well achieving this goal and prompts have been gradually fading as he has grown more familiar with expectations and the skill sets needed for achievement. His nanny, Ingrid, has been working on this as well so efforts both at school and program have been consistently reinforcing this behavior across different areas of his functioning. Santino did well working on an alphabet activity using the circular mat in the classroom; he has been articulating the letters more clearly and audibly. Today, after we performed our hand-washing routine at the sink in the kitchen, I gave Santino a cup of water, and brought the lip of the cup to his lips. In the past, Santino never drank from the cup, but today, he matter-of-factly and easily took a sip from the dixie cup as if he had been doing so all along. This demonstrated that he has the oral motor development and mouth muscle control needed to successfully achieve this goal and was a significant milestone that was accomplished. This will be practiced in future sessions in the hopes of consolidating greater gains and achieving greater mastery and independence in self-feeding and daily living skills.