FLUFF INSTRUCTIONS

 

Start: Jan 20th 2001

End:  12/13/01

 

What and Why:   Lukas could easily follow three step instructions. What he could not figure out is “fluffy talk”.  Unfortunately, a number of teachers he was running into spoke in fluff talk.   They didn’t say : get the red paint, sit down, and paint a red house.   What they did say was “boys and girls. Today, we are working on a special project.  Go to the back of the room and sit down at your tables, but get the red paint first. When you are ready, you will be doing what I just did here. See how I made this picture? What does it remind you of? Remember the story we read about the little red house in the woods yesterday? Remember how the little girl loved her home and didn’t want to leave it and the red hen helped save her? Remember how she felt sad? Well, I would like you to paint what you think the red house looks like. We will then be reading a continuation of the story from yesterday and tomorrow we will show our parents at open house all our projects and what we have been doing for language arts.”

 

Sigh….after all that, Lukas would most likely take a seat and forget to the get the paint.  Or he would draw something else from the story that he remembered like the red hen who helped her and then be waiting for the story even though the real instruction in all that was : get the red paint, take a seat, and paint a house.  Part of this is because sometimes he would only half pay attention if there was too much fluffy talk.  He needed to learn what was important and what wasn’t. He needed to learn to cut through all the jabber.

 

Targets:

 

TARGET

INTRODUCE

MASTERED

 

1. 3 step fluff

January 20th 2001

2/14/01

2. Four step Fluff

Feb. 14, 2001

3/21/01

3. Five step Fluff

3/26/01

3/27/01

4. 5 step fluff in a project that takes “time” to complete versus something he can do in five minutes

4/3/01

9/20/01**********

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

His ABA hours reduced in the summer of 2001 and so there was less time to work on this. However, look at targets 1-3 and you will see that we worked on these things for weeks and even a month.  This was uncommon for Lukas but shows that this was a weak skill.

 

We started off having him do “fun” fluff things like “hey you need to build strong muscles so I want you to run around the table three times but then, because I know how much you love dogs, I want you to bark but before you bark please throw this in the trash can so we don’t litter.”

 

TUTOR NOTES:

 

12/13/01 SP in Maintanence:   Target 4 90%   He was very excited that he skipped a step (though he remembered that he forgot it)

 

12/12/01 LS  Target 4 Did at coffee shop (cleaned off table)  NO PROBLEMS!  100%

 

8/1/01 EH  Target 4 100%, he did it out of order but order not important for completion. Watch this in the future

 

7/19/01 SP Target 4 60%  used PVP & “what do you do next?” prompts.

 

6/26/01 SP Target 4 30%  Real situation at summer camp. Teacher gave unintentional fluff and he missed it.