Wednesday, ABA session with Mr. Dan at 5:30 PM.
William saw me walking to the living so he followed me there. He turned on the light and then pushed all the magazines from the coffee table to the ground! So Mr. Dan set a mission to make William put up everything back on the table before he can play.
His method is to get William’s attention on a toy, then ask William to clean up before he can play the toy.
First Dan tried to blow the bubbles and made some noise with domino. William didn’t seem to be interested in that: he kept playing and sitting on the magazines without looking up. Then Dan tried different toys but William did not care either. Finally Dan asked me for William’s ipad: the most powerful enforcer!
So Dan turned on YouTube, played some videos on the iPad; and soon William came to him. So iPad won!
– “Hi William, do you want iPad? – Dan kept the iPad and would not let William touched it.”
– “iPad”
– “You will have iPad but fist let’s clean up the magazine first and then we get to play with iPad.”
So they both went to the coffee table.
– “Dan’s turn to clean up” – Dan put some magazines on the table while he said that. “William’s turn to clean up” – he gave some to William and asked him to put on the table. William did a few times and then refused to do it.
– “Sorry William, you have to clean up first.” So Dan went back to the dining table, turn on the iPad; and push up the speaker volumn.
William hang around the coffee table a bit and then ran back to the iPad. Mr. Dan repeated the same thing. “Let’s clean up first, then iPad!”
This time William helped to put all the magazines back on the coffee table but as soon as he done, he pushed everything back on the ground!
– “Sorry William, that’s not right, clean up first before we can play.” – So Dan took the iPad with him to the dining room.
William ran to the iPad. Mr. Dan said the same thing!
4th time, finally William was compliant; with Mr. Dan’s help to put all the magazines on the table and did not push them down again.
I was so impressed with the way Dan handled the situation with a very calm voice and patience.
Hopefully this way William will understands that if he messes things up, he needs to clean up.